Lawsuit Challenging the Exclusion of Qualified Candidates from Presidential Debates is Filed in Washington, DC
Lawsuit Challenging the Exclusion of Qualified Candidates from Presidential Debates is Filed in Washington, DC
This article was featured in our weekly newsletter, the Liberator Online. To receive it in your inbox, sign up here. 2012 presidential candidates Gov. Gary Johnson and Jill Stein, along with the Libertarian and Green parties and their vice-presidential candidates, filed a lawsuit in federal court in Washington, DC, today charging that the exclusion of qualified candidates from the general election presidential debates by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) violates federal anti-trust laws. The lawsuit is funded by the Our America Initiative, a not-for-profit advocacy organization, through their Fair Debates project, https://www.fairdebates.com. It was filed on behalf of the plaintiffs by the Our America Initiative’s attorney Bruce Fein, who served as Associate Deputy Attorney General and General Counsel to the Federal Communications Commission under the Reagan Administration.
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