National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Comm’n · ¶46

Third, in 2001 in Colorado II, the Court justified the political-party coordinated-expenditure limits in part on a new donor-centric theory—namely, that the limits curb a donor’s “undue influence on an officeholder’s judgment, and the appearance of such influence.” 533 U. S., at 441; see also McCutcheon, 572 U. S., at 240 (Breyer, J., dissenting) (noting that Colorado II upheld the limits as a means of preventing “undue influence by wealthy donors” (quotation marks omitted)).

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