The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that federal limits on political party-candidate spending coordination are unconstitutional. The ruling was 6-3, with Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson in the dissent.
The case, known as NRSC v. FEC, stems from a 2022 challenge to a provision of the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) that restricted coordinated spending campaigns between political parties and candidates. The Republican plaintiffs — which included then-Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance — alleged that such limitations violated the First Amendment.
