Court Opinion

ID: 9439277
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 06:29:24.047718+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:26:16.377446
License: Public Domain

GARLAND, Circuit Judge,
concurring in the judgment:
Appellants contend that in the absence of the judicial declaration they seek, they are deprived of information that a political party committee has coordinated its expenditures with its presidential candidate. The FEC responds, and appellants do not dispute, that political party committees are already required to report and to identify such coordinated expenditures as § 441a(d) expenditures in their FECA filings. FEC Br. at 34-35; see 2 U.S.C. § 434(b)(4)(H)(iv), (6)(B)(iv); 2 U.S.C. § 441a(d)(2); Fed. Election Comm’n v. Colorado Republican Fed. Campaign Comm., 533 U.S. 431, 121 S.Ct. 2351, 2352, 2371, 150 L.Ed.2d 461 (2001). Because appellants’ briefs fail to articulate how a judicial declaration would provide them with additional information, they have failed to satisfy their burden of establishing standing to bring this action. See Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife, 504 U.S. 555, 561, 112 S.Ct. 2130, 119 L.Ed.2d 351 (1992).