Watchdog group accuses the Trump campaign and family members of engaging in 'schemes' that hid massive election spending and likely broke federal law

"There's no law or regulation under which the FEC could refuse to form the committee even though the candidate is constitutionally ineligible," said Trevor Potter, a former Republican chairman of the FEC who now leads the Campaign Legal Center, a nonprofit election watchdog organization. Determining a candidate's eligibility primarily falls to individual state governments, whose ballot-access laws are the primary firewalls between an ineligible federal candidate's campaign and that candidate appearing on an actual ballot.

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