The Supreme Court granted cert. today in National Republican Senatorial Committee v. FEC. The Court also granted the motion of the DNC to intervene in the case. Last week, Bob Bauer and I posted on this blog about the legal issues in the case and the way the campaign finance system has changed in practice since the Court addressed a version of this issue back in 2001.

I should note that the 2001 case was a facial challenge, which argued that any limitation on party coordinated spending with candidates violates the First Amendment. The Court rejected that facial challenge in a 5-4 decision. The case the Court granted today is an as-applied challenge specifically to limitations on coordination on campaign communications, though the petition does raise broader issues as well.