{"id":702144,"date":"2010-03-26T17:20:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T21:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=15138"},"modified":"2010-03-26T17:20:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T21:20:30","slug":"rnc-to-appeal-campaign-finance-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/702144","title":{"rendered":"RNC to Appeal Campaign Finance Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The RNC will appeal today&#8217;s campaign finance ruling to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>A three judge panel of the U.S. District Court in Washington ruled Friday that it cannot overturn a Supreme Court ruling which upholds a ban on soft money fundraising by national party committees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today&#8217;s decision leaves special-interest groups and labor unions with more power to influence our elections than political parties.&#8221; Said Bush Administration Solicitor General Ted Olson, who will represent the RNC before the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Olson added, &#8220;We will demonstrate to the Supreme Court that the First Amendment does not tolerate that result.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The RNC argues that it should be able to raise soft money for activities that have nothing to do with federal elections, such as state elections and congressional redistricting.<\/p>\n<p>The ban on soft money fundraising is one of the few parts of the McCain-Feingold law to survive multiple court challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RNC will appeal today&#8217;s campaign finance ruling to the Supreme Court. A three judge panel of the U.S. District Court in Washington ruled Friday that it cannot overturn a Supreme Court ruling which upholds a ban on soft money fundraising by national party committees. &#8220;Today&#8217;s decision leaves special-interest groups and labor unions with more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2WEU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}