A federal lawsuit challenges limits on campaign contributions in Illinois judicial race.
that bars judicial candidates from receiving campaign cash from out-of-state contributors and groups that don’t disclose their donors.per election cycle from a single source to independent expenditure committees set up to support or oppose judicial candidates.In their lawsuit, Chancey and the PACs argue that both laws violate free-speech rights established in cases including the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Citizens United decision, which opened the door to unlimited political contributions.
In arguing against the restrictions, the lawsuit says the state law unconstitutionally prohibits Chancey, who practiced law from 1978 until retiring in 2016, from contributing to friends and acquaintances running for seats on the bench. Restoration PAC was founded by businessman Doug Traux, who ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination of U.S. Senate in 2014.
State Board of Elections spokesman Matt Dietrich declined to comment on the pending lawsuit, and a spokeswoman for the attorney general’s office did not respond late Wednesday. Illinois Supreme Court Justice Thomas Kilbride at the opening of the new Will County Courthouse in Joliet on Oct. 9, 2020.
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