Gabby Giffords Sues the NRA Over Secret GOP Donation Scheme

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NEW: Gabby Giffords is suing the NRA in federal court over an alleged multimillion-dollar shell company scheme to illegally influence a number of elections. Her case also carries massive implications for federal election law. Me @thedailybeast

Gabby Giffords Sues the NRA Over Secret GOP Donation Scheme
After years of inaction by the Federal Election Commission, a gun control group founded by Gabby Giffords is suing the NRA over an alleged scheme to funnel millions to Republicans.
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9:42 AM · Nov 3, 2021

https://www.thedailybeast.com/gabby-giffords-gun-control-group-sues-the-nra-over-secret-gop-donation-scheme-to-donald-trump

A gun control nonprofit founded by former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ) sued the National Rifle Association on Tuesday, filing a federal lawsuit alleging that the gun rights group carried out an illegal, multimillion-dollar political coordination scheme that went on for years to the benefit of Donald Trump and other Republicans.

It could also be a landmark case for U.S. election law.

Giffords’ nonprofit—also called Giffords—had previously targeted the NRA in a number of complaints to the Federal Election Commission. Those complaints, first filed in 2018, went unanswered by the agency for so long that on Monday a federal judge granted Giffords the right to sue the NRA itself—opening a door that campaign finance reform advocates say had been locked for too long.

But it did not take Giffords long to act. One day later, the nonpartisan watchdog Campaign Legal Center Action, which has been working with the nonprofit, filed the new lawsuit in D.C. District Court.

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