Press Advisory

 

May 9, 2003, 1:15 – At today’s noon deadline for filing requests to stay the three-judge panel’s decision in McConnell v. FEC, a number of parties had filed such motions. 

 

Plaintiffs American Civil Liberties Union and the National Rifle Association have filed motions to stay the portion of the decision dealing with electioneering communications, or “issue ads.” 

 

Press reports indicate that the National Right to Life Committee and the Club for Growth also intend to ask the court to enjoin enforcement of its decision, but no such motions have been made available to the parties.

 

The government defendants – the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Election Commission and the Federal Communications Commission – filed a motion to stay the entire decision pending consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court.  The Reform Act’s congressional sponsors filed a similar application on May 8.

The NRA and the government defendants also asked that the district court temporarily stay its decision while it considers whether to stay enforcement until the High Court can rule. 

 

These stay applications (and those of the Nat’l Right to Life Committee and the Club for Growth, if they become available) are posted on the Campaign Legal Center’s website at http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/McConnell-87.html.

 

 

Mark Glaze

Associate Counsel

The Campaign Legal Center

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