Overview
- The Supreme Court in a 6–3 decision issued on Tuesday struck down Federal Election Campaign Act limits that barred political parties from coordinating spending with their federal candidates.
- Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the majority opinion joined by Chief Justice Roberts and four other conservative justices while Justices Kagan, Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.
- The decision immediately allows national and state party committees to coordinate unlimited spending with candidates, which advisers say will let parties buy ads at candidate rates and reroute large donations into party-controlled campaigns.
- Republican leaders hailed the ruling as a First Amendment victory and a tool to strengthen parties while Democrats and good-government groups warned it opens new routes to evade individual contribution limits and raises corruption risks.
- The ruling overturns a roughly 25-year precedent and extends a post‑Citizens United trend that has eroded campaign finance limits, with experts saying the full effects on ad buying, fundraising and who controls campaigns will play out over several election cycles.