BLT:

Lawyers for the Federal Election Commission and government contractors on Thursday argued in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit over a law that forbids the contract holders from making federal campaign donations. The merits of the case, however, took a backseat.

The panel—Senior Judge Douglas Ginsburg and judges Thomas Griffith and Karen Henderson—focused most of their time on the court’s jurisdiction to even hear the dispute.