Democrats Sue to Stop Trump's Plan to Seize Control of the FEC.

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Democrats Sue Trump Over Attempt to Control Independent Election Agency

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The Democratic Party is suing Donald Trump over an executive order that threatens the independence of the Federal Election Commission (FEC). If successful, Trump could gain direct control over the agency responsible for enforcing campaign finance laws, allowing him to tilt elections in the GOP's favor.

The lawsuit, filed Friday by Elias Law Group on behalf of the three national Democratic committees, challenges an expansive executive order Trump issued earlier this month that would give him unprecedented power over key regulatory agencies that were designed to operate without direct White House control.

In it, the plaintiffs argue that the executive order specifically threatens the Federal Election Commission (FEC), which Congress established in 1974 to enforce federal campaign finance laws through a bipartisan board of six commissioners who are appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate.

If Trump’s order is allowed to stand, the president — through coercion or direct control — could affect FEC decision-making to his party’s benefit, the lawsuit warns.

“The extinction of the FEC’s independence — and replacement with the President’s decree — severely harms Plaintiffs by placing the head of the opposing political party in charge of interpreting campaign finance law for the executive branch,” it reads.

Filed in the District Court of D.C., the lawsuit asked the court to declare that the FEC’s status as an independent regulatory body is constitutional and to bar the Trump administration from applying the executive order to FEC commissioners.

 

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Trump's administration but all this is being done by the people behind him like the Heritage Foundation. If Trump ended his presidency tomorrow, they'd still be pushing all this nonsense through that attack dog, JD Vance.