“FEC to Vote on Super PAC Advisory Opinion”

Ken Doyle for Bloomberg BNA:

The Federal Election Commission has signaled that it will vote in the coming weeks on a potentially major advisory opinion request seeking to clarify legal limits on super political action committees (super PACs) and other campaign spending groups during the 2016 campaign.
The request, which came from Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias of the firm Perkins Coie, was expected to be posted on the FEC website late Sept. 18, starting the clock ticking on a 60-day period during which the FEC is required by law to consider it. Elias had requested that the FEC expedite the request and rule on it within 30 days, but it was not clear if this would happen.
Also uncertain was whether the six FEC commissioners, who have been deeply divided on enforcement and regulatory questions concerning campaign spending groups, would be able to muster the required four-vote majority to answer Elias’s legal questions. The commissioners are evenly divided among three recommended by Democrats and three by Republicans.
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