On May 3, U.S. House member Christopher Van Hollen, Jr., asked the U.S. Supreme Court not to expedite the lawsuit Republican National Committee v Federal Election Commission, 09-1287. The three-page response is here. The case concerns the contribution limit to national committees of political parties. The Republican Party had filed this lawsuit in 2008 in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., and lost in that court on March 26, 2010. The party has been hoping that its direct appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court could be heard in time to affect this year’s election, assuming that the party wins the case.

Representative Van Hollen, a Democrat, had intervened in the case, on the side of the FEC. In this recent filing, he asks that the U.S. Supreme Court not expedite the case.