This latest action is as misguided as it is transparent.

The NRA responded Thursday with a statement calling the lawsuit “another premeditated abuse of the public by our adversaries - who will stop at nothing in their pursuit of their anti-freedom agenda. “When special interests like the NRA secretly collude with candidates, this illegal coordination corrupts our election process and deprives voters of their right to know who is spending to influence their vote.” “Campaign finance law prohibits groups like the NRA from buying influence over elected officials by coordinating spending with those candidates’ campaigns,” Campaign Legal Center attorney Molly Danahy said in a news release. Two NRA affiliates - National Rifle Association of America Political Victory Fund and National Rifle Association of America Institute for Legislative Action - are accused of coordinating with GOP candidates to use the same personnel and vendors for campaign ads. Trump’s 2016 campaign received up to $25 million as part of the scheme, the lawsuit states. The contributions to Rosendale were during his unsuccessful 2018 Senate campaign, according to the lawsuit.

Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Tom Cotton of Arkansas and former Sen. Matt Rosendale of Montana, but the text of the lawsuit also accuses the NRA of “excessive and unreported in-kind contributions” to the campaigns of Trump and Republican Sens. The lawsuit names as defendants Hawley and U.S.

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