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Supreme Court Allows Unlimited Party Coordination Spending, Overturning Decades of Campaign Finance Precedent
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"This was a case where the court had ruled on this question before and the Supreme Court just sort of like drove through that as if it was just air. And that is a really big deal. And so the question is like what campaign finance law is this court going to uphold if it is not this one."
Democratic election lawyer Mark Elias describes how the Supreme Court overturned multiple prior rulings dating to the 1970s that limited coordinated spending between political parties and candidates. The RNC successfully argued that parties should be allowed unlimited coordinated expenditures with candidates, reversing defeats on the same issue in the 1990s and 2001. Elias argues this decision undermines one of the last remaining pillars of campaign finance law and raises questions about whether any contribution limits will survive this Court's scrutiny.
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