Campaign finance enforcement battles and institutional decay

FEC staff cut 33% with 195-case backlog. New cases: Keohokalole, Blackburn $4.8M workaround, Lindell pillow complaint proceeding, WisGOP complaint against Berman. Reckoning Action pushes federal ban on using campaign funds for legal fees in misconduct cases. State-level schemes (Victor Marx) mirror federal patterns. Partisan enforcement battles intensify.