Court orders FEC to rule on complaints against NRA's alleged campaign coordination scheme

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In 2019, the Washington-based nonpartisan watchdog group Campaign Legal Center Action sued the FEC on behalf of the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, a gun-control advocacy group led by former Democratic Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords. "The failure of the FEC to enforce our campaign finance laws has resulted in an explosion of shady campaign spending," said Trevor Potter, the president of Campaign Legal Center ActionCLC and a former FEC chairman. "The FEC had the chance to do the right thing by taking action against the NRA for this blatant spending coordination, but failed to do so."

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