National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Comm’n · ¶129

The only real-world change that has happened since then is that the danger is now still larger. That is because, put simply, this Court has ensured that the numbers are still bigger. For years, campaign finance law imposed “aggregate limits” on the amount a donor could give to federal candidates and party committees in a two-year election cycle. In 2013-2014, for example, that limit was $123,200— far below the $551,300 payment described above. But in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Comm’n, this Court (true to form) invalidated the aggregate limit. 572 U. S., at 193. It is because of that change that a single donor, working through a joint fundraising committee, can now route as much as $551,300 to a single candidate. See supra, at 8. To permit that to happen, candidates from both parties have sought to make their joint committees as large as possible (a development the McCutcheon…

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