The Supreme Court on Tuesday axed longstanding limits on how much money party committees can spend in coordination with candidates, upending the campaign finance landscape in the middle of the 2026 midterm election cycle.
The ruling is a boon for Republican Party committees, which teamed up with Vice President JD Vance, who was a senator from Ohio when the case was filed, to argue that expenditure coordination limits violated the First Amendment right to free speech and have harmed party committees’ power in the super PAC era.
Vance and the GOP committees lost in lower courts before bringing the case before the Supreme Court, which ruled 6-3 in their favor.