A federal judge tossed a Democratic Party lawsuit aimed at one of President Donald Trump’s executive orders, which it alleged intruded on the independence of the Federal Election Commission.
U.S. District Judge Amir Ali said in a ruling on Tuesday night that the Democratic Party’s case proved too speculative to justify emergency intervention.
The judge relayed that the FEC said the executive order, titled “Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies,” will “have no effect on their operations or decisionmaking.” Without “concrete action
or impact on the FEC’s or its Commissioners’ independence,” the judge said, the court must dismiss the case.
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The Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee brought the suit against the Trump administration in February.
Trump’s executive order does
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