Clinton Campaign Case to Prompt Review of Disclosure Exemption

Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign and a pro-Clinton political action committee must face claims they failed to properly disclose millions in expenditures, a D.C. Circuit panel ruled.

The Federal Election Commission “acted contrary to law” in dismissing watchdog group Campaign Legal Center’s complaint alleging Federal Election Campaign Act violations by Hillary for America and Correct the Record, Judge Cornelia Pillard said in an opinion issued Tuesday. The FEC erred by stretching statutory exemptions for internet spending “beyond lawful limits,” wrote Pillard, of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Under the law, a candidate’s campaign committee must ...