Chuck Darwin (@[email protected])

The US supreme court is set on Tuesday to hear arguments in a Republican-led challenge on free speech grounds to federal limits on spending by political parties in coordination with electoral candidates in a case involving JD Vance. Donald Trump’s administration has thrown its support behind the challenge, brought by plaintiffs including two Republican committees and the vice-president, who was running for the US Senate in Ohio when the case began. The case centers on whether federal limits on coordinated campaign spending violate the constitution’s first amendment protection against government abridgment of freedom of speech. The challengers have appealed a lower court’s ruling that upheld restrictions on the amount of money parties can spend on campaigns with input from candidates they support, formally known as "coordinated party expenditure limits". Because the Federal Election Commission under Trump has declined to defend the provision of federal law at issue, the court appointed lawyer Roman Martinez to do so. The justices also permitted three Democratic groups to intervene to defend the lower court’s decision. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/09/supreme-court-jd-vance-campaign-spending-limits?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other