Political Parties Can Now Spend Unlimited Money Supporting Candidates, After Supreme Court Overturns Decades of Precedent

“The court was not convinced that limiting coordinated party expenditures was necessary to curb conduit corruption.”

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in NRSC v. FEC that federal limits on party spending coordinated with candidates violate the First Amendment, overturning the 2001 Colorado II precedent. The workaround is now official. Donors max out to the party, the party spends it on the candidate, and the individual contribution limit becomes decoration. Fifty years of post-Watergate campaign finance law is down to a rump.