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Campaign finance law challenged by Ted Cruz met with skepticism at Supreme Court
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell urged the Supreme Court in a friend-of-the-court brief to use Cruz's case as a vehicle to scrap the entire 2002 campaign finance law.
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A divided Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) challenge to limits on the amount of money candidates can raise from donors to pay off their personal debt after an election.
By Fredreka Schouten and Ariane de Vogue, CNN The Supreme Court will revisit the issue of campaign finance Wednesday, hearing a challenge brought by Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas to a federal cap on candidates using political contributions to recoup personal loans they make to their campaigns.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Wednesday seemed sympathetic to Sen. Ted Cruz in a challenge the Texas Republican brought to a provision of campaign
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell urged the Supreme Court in a friend-of-the-court brief to use Cruz's case as a vehicle to scrap the entire 2002 campaign finance law.
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in Republican Sen. Ted Cruz's bid to undo a provision limiting the amount of money candidates can be reimbursed for personal loans to their own campaigns.
Cruz loaned his own campaign $260,000 in the 2018 election, purposely going over the limit on what could be repaid to him in order to trigger a legal challenge.
Some conservatives had hoped to use Sen. Ted Cruz’s lawsuit over the relatively obscure debt-repayment limit as a means to totally eradicate a landmark law that added significant new guardrails to the nation’s campaign finance system.
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court heard on Wednesday a challenge Sen. Ted Cruz brought to a provision of campaign finance law limiting the repayment of federal candidates' loans to their campaigns.
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