Payvand Ahdout (University of Virginia School of Law) has posted Political Mootness (111 Va. L. Rev. 841 (2025)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Congress and the executive have engaged in major clashes over the scope of their powers, particularly involving Congress's subpoena power and power of the purse. In the last two decades, none of these disputes with the government represented on both sides of the "v" has ended in a final judgment on the merits.