175.10 has been used before. There are many things which are firsts, and a lot of shaky legal theory. My I'd put 10 to 1 odds this gets overturned, and 5 to 1 odds it happens before it gets to the supreme court.

1. Usually they charge the predicate crime.

2. FECA has never been used as a predicate crime.

3. I don't believe a campaign finance reporting violation has been tried as election interference.

4. There are a lot of unsettled questions about these laws like can 175.10 point to a federal crime? Is hasn't been prosecuted that way before. Can it point to FECA despite FECA's broad preemption?

Law professors discussing these issues below.

https://shugerblogcom.wordpress.com/2023/04/04/a-potential-p...

https://law.syracuse.edu/news/professor-gregory-germain-writ...