2009 Dem legal brief argued that CANDIDATES are bound by 1982 consent decree

Not just members of the RNC.

I've been reading claims today that the consent decree barring interference with voters only applies to the RNC, not to Trump. But this Democratic legal brief -- in a court case won by the Dems -- argued otherwise.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2013/0114/At-Supreme-Court-no-reprieve-for-GOP-in-voting-rights-consent-decree

DNC lawyers argued that the high court should allow the consent decree to remain in place. Evidence presented during the 2008 and 2009 litigation over the decree showed that the order is still needed today, they said.

“That evidence includes proof that the RNC violated the Decree in 1990 and in 2004, when it created voter challenge lists that targeted minority voters; that between 1997 and 2008, Republican candidates and party organizations had engaged in separate voter suppression activities in various states, including Texas, Arkansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin; and that the racially polarized voting that influenced the RNC in the 1980s persists today,” Angelo Genova wrote in his brief to the court.