A group of Democratic congressional candidates urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to reject an effort by Republican Senate and House campaign committees to halt an appeals court ruling finding coordinated advertisement buys between political parties and joint fundraising committees are not entitled to cheaper candidate rates.The National Republican Congressional Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee filed an emergency petition to the Supreme Court earlier this week asking the court to halt the order by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit and restore the cheap ad buy rates for parties and joint fundraising committees. Lawyers for Democratic Senate candidates Sherrod Brown, Jon Ossoff, and Roy Cooper, and Democratic House candidate Kristen McDonald Rivet, argued in a filing Thursday that the high court should reject the emergency petition, leaving in place the 4th Circuit’s ruling.
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