Ted Cruz brings lawsuit demanding Trump be able to pay himself back millions he gave to his campaign
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is further attempting to prove he's pals with Donald Trump after launching a lawsuit appealed to the Supreme Court that Trump and other candidates should be able to pay themselves back the millions of dollars they use to self-fund their campaigns.
Trump loaned his campaign $10.8 million in 2015, and by March 2016, he'd given his campaign $38 million. Trump even went so far as to claim that he was willing to spend as much as $100 million of his own money to win in 2016. He didn't ultimately give that much officially, but it was certainly a lot, particularly given the hush-money payments uncovered.
Cruz claims that the McCain-Feingold Law violates the First Amendment by limiting to $250,000 fundraising to repay loans a candidate makes to his or her own federal campaign.
See the document below:
JUST IN: Federal Election Commission is appealing to #SCOTUS a 3-judge court's ruling that McCain-Feingold law violates 1st Amendment by limiting to $250K fundraising to repay loans candidate makes to own federal campaign. Suit brought by @SenTedCruz. Doc:https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20881997-show_temp8\u00a0\u2026— Josh Gerstein (@Josh Gerstein) 1623619740
