Finding a Way to Get the FEC's 527 Inaction before
the Courts
For
some time I have wondered what strategy Republicans or that segment of
the reform community that wishes greater regulation of 527s might
pursue to get review of the FEC's inaction on the 527 issue. Although
Republicans have now done an about-face on the 527 issue and are urging
that 527s (formerly declared illegal) be set up in earnest to benefit
Republicans, at least one reform group continues the fight. See this
Campaign Legal Center press release. It appears that the CLC has
intervened in an existing lawsuit over an earlier
FEC action on 527s. I have not had a chance to look at the papers, but
this looks like a suit based on FEC inaction before the McConnell
case issued.
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Rick Hasen
Professor of Law and William M. Rains Fellow
Loyola Law School
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