National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Comm’n · ¶120

The anti-circumvention principle just noted should resolve this case in favor of the caps’ constitutionality. A contribution limit of $7,000 will do no good if a donor can use a political party as a conduit to give the candidate hundreds of thousands more. Congress sought to prevent that kind of evasion through the limits on a party’s coordinated expenditures; and those limits are well-tailored to the statutory mission. That is all the First Amendment demands— which is why this Court upheld the same restriction against the same challenge 25 years ago in Colorado II.

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