In short, under a longstanding FEC rule about what you have to disclose when making an independent expenditure, Crossroads GPS (and the FEC eventually) argued that donor disclosure is only required if the donation is made for the *specific communication* being disclosed.
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It is totally possible, as
@theglipper posits, that the Chief simply knows the matter will not be able to be resolved by the full court this weekend and so, rather than making all of the parties wait, he just issued the single-justice stay now rather than Sunday evening.Show this thread -
Side note: This is another instance where the court's procedures and rules seem almost designed to make knowing what is actually going on at the nation's highest court damn near impossible.
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OK, going to try to sum all of this up in as plain of English as I can in two final tweets ...
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Crossroads GPS & the FEC say independent expenditures only need to disclose donors when the donors give specifically for the expense being reported. CREW & the district court say that’s wrong under the law, so the FEC rule is invalid (and more donors would need to be disclosed).
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The district court ruling was due to go into effect Monday, but Chief Justice John Roberts put that ruling on hold this afternoon — meaning the FEC rule will stay in place for now and donors don’t have to be disclosed — pending further action from him or the full Supreme Court.
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