National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Comm’n · ¶15

The en banc U. S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit rejected plaintiffs’ challenge and upheld FECA’s political- party coordinated-expenditure limits, applying this Court’s 2001 decision in Federal Election Comm’n v. Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Comm., 533 U. S. 431, commonly referred to as Colorado II. But in a series of insightful opinions, a majority of the judges on the Court of Appeals questioned that precedent in light of more recent First Amendment decisions of this Court—particularly McCutcheon v. Federal Election Comm’n, 572 U. S. 185 (2014), and Federal Election Comm’n v. Ted Cruz for Senate, 596 U. S. 289 (2022). See 117 F. 4th 389, 395 (CA6 2024) (en banc) (Sutton, C. J.); id., at 401 (Thapar, J., concurring); id., at 407 (Bush, J., concurring); id., at 447 (Readler, J., dissenting).

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