The Daily Fuckup

The Federal Election Commission’s weekly digest for Sept. 11–15, 2023, published Sept. 15, recorded a plain week of agency housekeeping: six closed enforcement matters, an advisory-opinion request, and notice that the Commission canceled its Sept. 14 open meeting.

The digest is a procedural update, not a major enforcement announcement. But it is still a useful snapshot of the agency’s work, because it shows the Commission moving matters off its docket while still handling advisory and scheduling business.

The closed matters were listed alongside other items the agency chose to make public in the same update. That includes the advisory-opinion request and the canceled open meeting, both of which are the kind of routine entries that rarely draw attention outside election-law circles.

Read together, the Sept. 15 digest points to normal agency operations rather than a policy shift or a new enforcement push. It is a dated record of what the Commission processed that week, and little more — which, in this case, is the story.