As noted here earlier, on June 17, a U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., denied the Federal Election Commission’s request for reconsideration in Libertarian National Committee v FEC. The issue is whether the party is entitled to have its case heard before all the judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit. The Courthouse News Service has this article about the ruling. It is somewhat unusual for Courthouse News Service to cover a denial of a request for rehearing. Generally the Courthouse News Service only writes about important court decisions, not on whether a request for rehearing is denied. But the News Service felt this development was interesting enough to cover, probably because the judge’s decision, denying rehearing to the FEC, is so interesting. The judge several times quoted from the transcript of the original hearing to show that points the FEC had conceded at oral argument, it now seems to want to retract.