National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Comm’n · ¶99

The Court and the dissent agree that the Government possesses an important interest in preventing circumvention of the base contribution limits. The Court concludes, as noted above, that the combination of the statutory base limits, earmarking rules, and disclosure requirements are sufficient to prevent circumvention of the base limits. The dissent believes that, in addition to those three statutory requirements, the statute’s coordinated- expenditure limits are also necessary to prevent circumvention. As we stated above, that is a serious argument. But we ultimately and respectfully do not agree with the dissent on that point for the reasons already set forth at length in this opinion.

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