The Republican National Committee is suing Google. According to (through The Verge), the group filed a lawsuit with California’s Eastern District Court on Friday. The grievance accuses Google of sending “millions” of RNC marketing campaign emails to Gmail spam folders in an extension of the corporate’s “discriminatory” filtering practices.

“At approximately the same time at the end of each month, Google sends to spam nearly all of the RNC’s emails,” the grievance claims. “Critically, and suspiciously, this end of the month period is historically when the RNC’s fundraising is most successful.”

The lawsuit comes after Google launched a controversial program to appease GOP lawmakers involved about its filtering practices. In June, after a discovered that Gmail was extra probably than competing electronic mail shoppers to filter emails from Republican campaigns, the corporate stated it could work with the Federal Election Commission to designed to stop political messages from ending up in spam folders. The concession got here after Republican lawmakers launched a invoice that sought to ban electronic mail platforms from utilizing algorithms to route marketing campaign messages robotically.

According to a , the Republican National Committee will not be making the most of this system Google constructed to handle the celebration’s issues. The group’s grievance doesn’t explicitly point out the pilot. Instead, it factors to a coaching session the RNC attended on August eleventh, the identical day the FEC permitted Google’s program.

“This discrimination has been ongoing for about ten months — despite the RNC’s best efforts to work with Google,” the group claims. Google didn’t instantly reply to Engadget’s request for remark. “As we’ve repeatedly stated, we merely do not filter emails primarily based on political affiliation,” the corporate informed Axios, including that Gmail’s spam filters replicate person actions.