Vance, GOP committees ask Supreme Court to strike down coordination limits [View all]
Source: The Hill
12/06/24 7:02 PM ET
Vice President-elect JD Vance and Republican committees asked the Supreme Court to overturn federal limits that restrict political parties from coordinating spending with candidates on the grounds that they violate the First Amendment.
Limits on contributions to candidates are much lower than they are to party committees such as the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) and the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), which are also plaintiffs along with former Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio).
“A political party exists to get its candidates elected. Yet Congress has severely restricted how much parties can spend on their own campaign advertising if done in cooperation with those very candidates,” the plaintiffs wrote in the petition made public Friday. The Federal Election Commission (FEC) declined to comment on litigation.
While a candidate can only accept $3,300 per person per election during the 2024 cycle, the NRSC could take in as much as $578,200 from a single donor per cycle. Limits on how much spending party committees can coordinate with candidates were originally set in part to guard against corruption and outsized influence from a small group of wealthy individuals.
Read more: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5027561-vance-gop-committees-ask-supreme-court-to-strike-down-coordination-limits/
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