On August 10, the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, said it will hear Libertarian National Committee v Federal Election Commission, 18-5227, on Friday, November 30, at 9:30 a.m. All eleven full-time U.S. Court of Appeals judges will participate.

This is the case over whether the Constitution protects the ability of a political party to receive an unlimited donation if the donor is deceased and had not told the party before he or she died that the bequest had been made.

The Libertarian brief is due September 12; the government’s brief is due October 12; the reply brief is due October 26.

On August 9, a U.S. District Court in Massachusetts heard Lyman v Baker, 1:18cv-10327. This is one of the four cases around the country that challenges the constitutionality of a state law, requiring that state’s presidential electors to be elected at-large. See this story.

A similar case was argued in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles last month. David Boies argued both times. He is famous for having been Al Gore’s attorney in 2000 in Bush v Gore.

Attorney Justin Hanson, an Illinois attorney, has filed to be a write-in candidate for U.S. House in the Illinois Third District. This is the district in which the March Republican primary was won by Arthur Jones, a Holocaust denier. The only other name on the ballot is the Democratic incumbent, Dan Lipinski. Hanson has already raised $20,000. See this story. Hanson is a former Republican congressional staffer.