National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Comm’n · ¶38

In recent cases such as McCutcheon and Cruz, the Court has stressed that, in order to satisfy closely drawn scrutiny, a regulation may not be “disproportionate” and must be “necessary” and “narrowly tailored” to its asserted goal. McCutcheon, 572 U. S., at 199 (law must avoid “unnecessary” abridgment of speech to survive “rigorous” review (quotation marks omitted)); id., at 218 (law must be “narrowly tailored” to meet the objective (quotation marks omitted)); id., at 220 (law cannot be “disproportionate to the Government’s interest”); Cruz, 596 U. S., at 306 (law must be “necessary for the interest it seeks to protect”).

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