National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Comm’n · ¶14

In 2001, this Court upheld the political-party coordinated-expenditure limits as consistent with the First Amendment. Nearly a generation later, in 2022, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee, then-candidate for Senate JD Vance, and then-Representative Steve Chabot sued the Federal Election Commission and its Commissioners. They claimed that the political-party coordinated-expenditure limits violate the First Amendment. Plaintiffs argued that political parties possess a First Amendment right to spend money as they see fit on political advertising and other campaign activities—and to do so in coordination with the parties’ candidates.

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