Elias Law Group to Defend Longstanding Campaign Finance Protections in U.S. Supreme Court on Behalf of Democratic Committees
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it will hear a case brought by the National Republican Senatorial Committee that could upend decades of federal campaign finance regulations by eliminating longstanding limits on coordinated party spending.
The U.S. Supreme Court also granted a motion to intervene filed by Elias Law Group attorneys last month on behalf of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC), and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC).
Elias Law Group attorneys representing the Democratic committees will now have the opportunity to defend the coordinated spending limits before the U.S. Supreme Court, after the Department of Justice changed course earlier this year and refused to defend the law.
“The Republican Party has spent decades trying to eliminate statutory limits on political party expenditures that are coordinated with candidates’ campaigns,” wrote Marc Elias, Counsel for the DNC, DSCC, and DCCC, in the successful motion to intervene.
“The Democratic Party Committees are subject-matter experts, include the mirror-image entities of two Petitioners, and possess a direct stake in vindicating their reliance interests in the existing regulatory regime. As Intervenor-Respondents, they will cure the lack of adversity and provide a vigorous and informed defense of the coordinated expenditure limits now under attack,” Elias continued.
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