National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Comm’n · ¶73

In response to amicus’s and intervenors’ arguments that the combination—namely, the base limits on contributions to candidates, the earmarking rules, and disclosure requirements—is still not adequate to prevent circumvention, the current record in the States does not demonstrate a sufficient risk of quid pro quo corruption from political-party coordinated expenditures. In the campaign finance context, this Court has often looked to the experience of the States. Id., at 209–210, n. 7; Cruz, 596 U. S., at 307. When States do not impose a particular campaign-finance restriction, the absence of evidence of resulting quid pro quo corruption is a strong sign that the concern is too speculative to support such a restriction at the federal level. On that issue, as Chief Judge Sutton recounted in the Sixth Circuit, a majority of the States “largely give parties free rein to make coordinated…

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