A lawyer who has already successfully fought to loosen campaign finance regulations says he'll probably go back to court to continue his crusade after the Federal Election Commission today deadlocked over allowing corporations, unions and other organizations with political action committees to create super PACs within them. 

The six commissioners divided along party lines over attorney Dan Backer's proposal to allow corporations, unions and other associations to create segregated "independent expenditure" accounts within their traditional political action committees, using the same name and brand they currently employ. Backer, of DB Capitol Strategies, was the winning attorney in Carey ...