The US Supreme Court has once again invalidated limits on political campaign spending, this time rejecting federal restrictions on coordinated expenditures between political parties and their candidates. The 6-3 ruling, issued on June 30, 2026, found that such caps violate the First Amendment's protections against government abridgment of free speech.
The decision comes as major Republican committees approach the November midterm elections with a significant financial advantage over their Democratic counterparts. The case was brought by Vice-President J.D. Vance and other Republican challengers.
Conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who authored the majority opinion, stated that “constitutional text, history, and precedent establish that the political-party coordinated expenditure limits violate the First Amendment.” The court's six conservative justices formed the majority, while the three liberal justices dissented.
This ruling overturned a 2001 Supreme Court decision from Colorado that addressed the same issue. The majority concluded that changes in campaign finance and shifts in the court's jurisprudence over the past two decades have undermined the rationale of the earlier ruling.
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