Justices Side With Ted Cruz Over Candidate Loan Rule

Justices Side With Ted Cruz Over Candidate Loan Rule

May 16, 2022, Law360

Rob Kelner was quoted by Law360 in response to the U.S. Supreme Court decision siding with Senator Ted Cruz, striking down part of a campaign finance law that imposes restrictions on a campaign's ability to repay a loan from a candidate, finding that the provision of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act "burdens core political speech without proper justification."

Rob remarked that the Supreme Court's ruling was unsurprising, as many campaign finance lawyers, including himself, “have long thought that this particular provision of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law was unconstitutional."

Rob continued, "Nothing in the court's decision really breaks new ground, but the chief justice's opinion for the court does underscore that the Roberts court remains highly skeptical of restrictions on campaign financing. All signs point toward further cases chipping away at the edifice of current campaign finance law."

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