National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Comm’n · ¶1

The Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) restricts a political party’s spending on campaign activities in coordination with candidates. 52 U. S. C. §30116(d). In 2001, this Court upheld those coordinated- expenditure limits as consistent with the First Amendment. See Fed eral Election Comm’n v. Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Comm., 533 U. S. 431 (Colorado II). Petitioners—a group of candidates and political party committees—challenged FECA’s political- party coordinated-expenditure limits under the First Amendment, arguing that Colorado II is no longer good law. In light of Colorado II, the en banc U. S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit rejected petitioners’ First Amendment challenge. This Court granted certiorari.

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