Craig Wants Lawsuit Dismissed

Former Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, has asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the Federal Election Commission for using campaign funds to pay for his legal defense, arguing that he was on official travel when he was arrested in a sex-sting operation. Craig, 67, said in a filing in federal court in Washington on Thursday that he was allowed to use campaign funds to pay legal fees incurred from a 2007 arrest at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport because he was on the way to Washington for a session of Congress. The travel triggered the Constitution’s clause immunizing federal lawmakers from arrest, according to the filing. “Senator Craig was engaged in official, constitutionally mandated activity at the time of the incident,” Craig said in the filing/ Tom Schoenberg , Bloomington News. More here. (AP file photo of then U.S. Sen. Larry Craig in Boise on Sept. 1, 2007, announcing plans to resign from Senate after his arrest in a Minneapolis airport sting operation)

Question: Should the lawsuit be dismissed?