U.S. Court of Appeals Says Ralph Nader Doesn’t Have Standing to Complain About FEC Failure to Enforce Campaign Laws in 2004

On August 2, the U.S. Court of Appeals issued an opinion in Nader v Federal Election Commission, 12-5134. The opinion says Nader doesn’t have standing to complain that the FEC did not enforce the campaign finance laws in 2004. Specifically, Nader demonstrated that the people who challenged his ballot access in 2004 spent millions of dollars on that effort, and none of the people who spent that money ever reported it as a donation to the Democratic Party or the John Kerry presidential campaign. Although everyone agrees with Nader’s accusation, the FEC did nothing about the Nader complaint (although the FEC took several years to make the determination that it would do nothing) and now the D.C. Circuit says Nader lacks standing.

The D.C. Circuit implied that if Nader were running for president in the next election, then he would have standing. The opinion is only six pages long.


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U.S. Court of Appeals Says Ralph Nader Doesn’t Have Standing to Complain About FEC Failure to Enforce Campaign Laws in 2004 — No Comments

  1. Why is standing so hard to understand for these courts. As the candidate who ran, Nader should have standing.

  2. Any excuse works if the judge is in on the Democratic and Republican suppression of minor parties. It doesn’t even have to make sense, it’s not like the mainstream media’s going to tell the public about cases like these (I’m very glad we have people like Richard Winger who do their best to fulfill the function that the MSM refuses to). Our leaders’ and officials’ supposed belief in democracy…hypocrisy at its finest in most cases.

  3. The USA is an EVIL and VICIOUS oligarchy of the 2 main extremist oligarchy gangs

    — the communist Donkeys and the fascist Elephants

    — playing their EVIL games in the very small number of gerrymander marginal States / districts.

    P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.

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