Last year the Federal Election Commission told Jill Stein, Green Party 2016 presidential nominee, that she must repay $175,272 in 2016 primary season matching funds. The determination said the FEC had overpaid her, because the cutoff should have been when the Green Party nominated her, not the later date when the Peace & Freedom Party of California considered her candidacy but nominated someone else. Stein argues the FEC is using the wrong cut-off date, and she has asked the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. circuit, to settle the issue.
The case is Stein v FEC, 21-1213. On January 31, the court said Stein’s brief is due February 14; the FEC brief is due March 16; and the Stein reply brief is due April 6.
I have never voted for her I (might next time) and still think Roseanne Barr would have been a better presidential candidate than her; but, I believe they are messing with her by trying to take that money back and bleed her to death financially so she doesn’t run again.