From Dispatch Politics:

Ohio has a law that says if candidates use more than $100,000 in personal funds for a campaign, their opponents have the option of exceeding state contribution caps and raising unlimited amounts from donors.

Sandra O’Brien, a Republican candidate for Ohio secretary of state, says that law is unconstitutional, and a federal judge appears inclined to agree.

O’Brien filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to prevent Sen. Jon Husted, her opponent in the May 2010 GOP primary, from filing a “declaration of no limits” because she intends to use personal money in the race.

Judge Edmund A. Sargus Jr. of U.S. District Court in Columbus approved a temporary order to block any such filing and said in a court order that O’Brien “has shown that there is a substantial question of the constitutionality” of the law.

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