A longtime Democratic Federal Election Commission member fired by President Donald Trump is seeking payback by joining a partisan suit to block one of the new president’s executive orders.
Ellen Weintraub, who had sharply criticized Trump in past statements and online postings, joined the Democratic Party’s bid to block enforcement of an executive order the party claims could end the FEC’s independence.
“If there is any agency that partisan elected officials — including the president — must not be allowed to bend to their will, it is the body that regulates them when they run for office: the Federal Election Commission,” said her “friend of the court” brief filed by her lawyers and Harvard Law School’s Election Law Clinic.
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Without showing evidence, Weintraub, the DNC, the
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