Paul S. Ryan, vice president of litigation at good government group Common Cause, was on the receiving end of a number of those decisions, and did not mince words.
“The FEC failing to enforce campaign finance laws in the face of obvious violation is nothing new. The Republican Commissioners continually take action to block enforcement,” Chlopak told The Daily Beast. “It is time for the FEC to do its job.”Trump and Hillary Clinton The divide, Franz wrote, “poses real problems” for the agency’s ability to enforce the law. But while he came shy of attributing the deadlock strictly to ideology, everyone interviewed for this article pointed to that division. Caleb Burns, campaign finance law specialist and partner at Wiley Rein, particularly called out that division, while distinguishing between ideology and partisanship.
Burns argued the GOP’s track record “clearly demonstrates a partisan neutrality and evenhanded approach to enforcement,” noting that Republican commissioners have consistently voted down investigations “that may be based on novel legal theories, a lack of clarity in the law, or infringe on First Amendment rights,” without partisan bias.
“It’s in a way not partisanship and in a way ideological, which I tried to express when I first joined. Nonetheless, the ideology was centered on the partisanship,” she said. Asked about the Clinton ruling, Ravel said that “in that instance it would be even more embarrassing” if the Republicans had acted there, but let Trump off in later cases.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren , a longtime transparency advocate who exercises oversight of the FEC, agreed that the agency was “badly broken,” and noted that the Trump data is a case in point for reform.
He must be held accountable damnit! He gets away with far too many crimes!!
maybe he didn't commit a crime....that could be the reason
Them that has, gets. The wealthy are above the law.
Because the people that write the laws also have to comply with the laws. Why punish themselves