On December 9, Ralph Nader filed this very clear, non-technical, and highly readable brief, asking a U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., to reconsider its decision in Nader v Federal Election Commission, 1:10-cv-00989. The brief is 12 pages and is well worth reading.

Nader had filed the lawsuit on 2010, after the FEC had refused to investigate his complaint that Democrats in 2004 spent millions of dollars to keep him off the ballot in 2004, and did not list these expenses in campaign finance reports. The complaint also lists other entities that acted in a similar manner. On November 9, the U.S. District Court had dismissed the lawsuit, even though the decision acknowledges that the FEC did not follow the law. The decision says the FEC had committed “harmless error.”