WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Campaign Legal Center and Democracy 21 are urging the Federal Election Commission to take action on its Federal Election Campaign Act lawsuit.
The plaintiffs asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for injunctive and declaratory relief in hopes of compelling the FEC to act on the FECA lawsuit. They first alerted the FEC with an administrative complaint in late March 2015, claiming that the previous Florida governor Jeb Bush infringed on 52 U.S.C when he allegedly “’established, financed, maintained, and controlled’ both directly and indirectly through his agents, the Right to Rise Super PAC, Inc., which ‘acted on his behalf’ by raising and spending soft money to promote Bush’s presidential campaign,” according to the lawsuit.
The FEC had yet to take any action by the filing of the plaintiffs’ request for relief. The plaintiffs said the lack of response has set the tone for other wealthy politicians to break FECA rules.