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  •  Sounds irrelevant for '04 (none / 0)

    I can't imagine the FEC could come out with new rules that would go into effect before 11/2.  What are the rules in the interim?

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    by pontificator on Mon Sep 20, 2004 at 12:03:22 PM PDT

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    •  irrelevent? (none / 0)

      I am by now means a lawyer but the article does state that all current rules are suspended until new ones are drafted, and at least one election lawyer describes the situation as "chaos."

      I wonder if the 60-day rule can now be ignored; this was going to work to our favor, by allowing certain single-issue, hard-money funded groups (such as Planned Parenthood) to campaign directly for individual candidates. I'm guessing that everyone with a dollar (or half a million) will now consider themselves free to do what they want from here on in.

      by desmoulins on Mon Sep 20, 2004 at 12:06:18 PM PDT

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      •  no (none / 0)

        read above, the ruling only dealt with a limited number of rules not BCRA as a whole.  this was a lawsuit by the reformers, they would not get a court ruling in their favor that left the rules wide open.

        by juls on Mon Sep 20, 2004 at 12:14:03 PM PDT

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    •  thats the big question (none / 0)

      the judge left it in limbo by throwing out the rules at this juncture in the election cycle.  i suspect there will be a stay of the rules till after Nov. 2nd.  

      let me note that the passage of BCRA and the accelerated hearing in the Supreme Court was intended to avoid these sorts of ruling late in the cycle.  but i am with McCain-Feingold-Shay-Meehan, the FEC did a piss poor job interpreting the rules and leaving huge loopholes where there should have been none.  this just not the right time to have a ruling like this one.

      by juls on Mon Sep 20, 2004 at 12:11:43 PM PDT

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