SCOTUS Likely To Side With Cruz On Campaign Finance

January 19, 2022 Republicans, Trump cultists

The Washington Post reports:

In the final days of the 2018 election, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) loaned his campaign $260,000, specifically so he could challenge an obscure campaign finance restriction that only $250,000 in personal loans can be repaid with money raised after an election. Oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Wednesday indicated Cruz is in position to collect on his investment.

But Cruz’s lawyer, Charles J. Cooper, said the senator was following in the footsteps of civil rights activists who have violated laws to prove in court they were unconstitutional. Cooper’s most relentless interrogator was Justice Elena Kagan. What “jumps off the page,” she said, is the potential for contributors to “find a way to put money not in the campaign but into a candidate’s own personal pocket.”

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Charlies Cooper appeared on JMG in 2017 when he was hired by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to represent him during testimony in the Mueller investigation.

Cooper defended Proposition 8 before the US Supreme Court on behalf of California’s viciously anti-gay Protect Marriage, but made a u-turn in 2014, declaring that his own daughter’s marriage to a woman had changed his mind on the issue.



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