Six years ago, the Rhode Island Republican Party aired a campaign commercial that the State Board of Elections claimed violated campaign finance laws. The details of the alleged violation are in yesterday’s Rhode Island Supreme Court opinion on the subject, but what struck me as most interesting is the court did with it. Here’s a court’s discussion of the remedies available at this date, after six years of slow litigation, and what should be done as a result:
[I]f the board concludes that either party violated the state