National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Comm’n · ¶140

Which is, sad to say, what this Court does today. A quarter century ago, Colorado II recognized that a party’s coordinated expenditures, if left unrestricted, were “tailor-made to undermine contribution limits.” 533 U. S., at 464. That is even more true now than it was then. See supra, at 11– 12. Those expenditures enable parties to funnel to candidates oversized contributions—massively in excess of the $7,000 base limit. And with that pass-through mechanism comes the danger of quid pro quo corruption—as if the base limit itself were half a million dollars. Congress, consistent with the First Amendment, can hold the line at $7,000. And so too, Congress can cap the coordinated payments capable of obliterating that line. By holding otherwise, the majority ushers in untold harm.

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