ABC News’ Teddy Davis Reports:
The Democratic National Committee (D.N.C.) announced on Thursday that it has filed a motion to intervene in the case of the Republican National Committee (R.N.C.) v. FEC, in which the RNC is seeking to dismantle the soft money provisions of the McCain-Feingold campaign reform act of 2002.
Following a 2008 electoral drubbing in which John McCain, the co-author of the campaign finance law, was its presidential nominee, the RNC filed suit challenging the constitutionality of the central tenet of McCain-Feingold: the ban on large, unregulated contributions to national political parties.
As a national party committee that would be directly impacted by any changes to McCain-Feingold, and as the RNC’s chief competitor, the DNC says that the party filed the motion to ensure its interests are adequately represented in the government’s defense of the law.
You can read the DNC’s complaint here: http://www.democrats.org/page/-/pdf/20090129_dnc_motion.pdf
ABC News’ Ferdous Al-Faruque contributed to this report.
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