Ted Cruz's fight against this campaign finance rule makes him like Rosa Parks, his lawyers say

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) apparently thinks he's a civil rights warrior now.

Cruz is currently fighting a campaign finance rule that prohibits him from getting the full $260,000 he personally loaned to his 2016 Senate campaign paid back via campaign donations. The FEC has responded by saying it's Cruz's fault for loaning himself the money in the first place, though Cruz's lawyers argued in a Friday filing that his fight against this purportedly unconstitutional law makes him just like the civil rights leader Rosa Parks.

In the filing, Cruz's lawyers said "the FEC also asserts that Senator Cruz and the Cruz Committee inflicted their injuries on themselves because they could have arranged to repay the Senator's loans using pre-election funds. Yes, and Rosa Parks could have sat in the back of the bus."

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The suit regards Cruz's 2018 Senate run, where he loaned his campaign $260,000 but only could get $250,000 back. That's because the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act lets candidates repay personal loans to their campaigns with supporters' donations, but only up to $250,000. Cruz's lawsuit is trying to upend that provision entirely.