What Is Lawfare? Is It Illegal? Reading the Barton Record
Lawfare is not just a political slogan. This analysis explains what the term means, where it came from, when legal tactics cross constitutional lines, and how five markers apply to the public record in SEC v. Barton.
SCOTUS Yet to Answer the REAL Question IN BARTON V. SEC: Can the SEC Take Everything and Still Call It “Equity”?
On March 30, 2026, the Supreme Court denied certiorari in Barton v. SEC. But the Court did not answer the real question: can the SEC use a general grant of “equitable relief” to support a receivership so sweeping that it takes every business allegedly touched by proceeds and leaves a defendant unable to fund his own criminal defense?