Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington v. Federal Election Commission

RUDOLPH CONTRERAS, United States District Judge

I. INTRODUCTION

This case concerns the degree to which the Federal Election Commission ("FEC")

*33can shield an enforcement action from judicial review by invoking its discretion to bring that action in the first place. Plaintiffs, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington ("CREW") and Noah Bookbinder, CREW's executive director, initiated this action against the FEC under the Federal Election Campaign Act ("FECA"). They argue that the FEC improperly dismissed their administrative complaint against New Models, a non-profit entity based in…