Justin Jouvenal @jjouvenal and Beth Reinhard @bethreinhard at the Washington Post have this story about the political party coordinated-spending case the Court will hear next Term:

The Supreme Court will hear a significant campaign finance case next term that will examine whether it violates the Constitution to restrict the amount of money that political parties can spend in coordination with individual candidates on advertising and other communications.

The case has the potential to reshape election spending in a major way. The restrictions being challenged were established in the early 1970s during the Nixon era to try to prevent donors from contributing to parties as a way to skirt limits on direct giving to candidates.

Richard H. Pildes, a New York University law professor, said ending the limits could shift the balance of financial might from outside groups that have come to dominate campaign spending to political parties that were once the major players.

“It would at a minimum open up more opportunities for political parties to work with their campaigns,” Pildes said. “More expansively, it could lead to political parties regaining some of the ground they lost to the Super PACs over the last 20 years.”…

The Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ruled against the Republicans, citing a 2001 Supreme Court ruling upholding the limits, but it acknowledged the high court “has tightened the free speech restrictions on campaign finance regulation” in more recent decisions, so the issue may be ripe for revisiting.

In the 2001 case, the high court upheld the restrictions on coordinating spending by political parties in a 5-4 ruling, finding they “minimize circumvention of [individual] contribution limits.”

The high court is allowing the Democratic National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to intervene in the case to defend the contribution limits,which the groups say are an essential part of trying to restrict the influence of wealthy donors on the political process.

The Democratic groups argued in a brief filed with the courts that removing the limitscould lead to corruption by “blow[ing] open the cap on the amount of money that donors can funnel to candidates through party committees’ coordinated expenditures.”

For 2025, the Federal Election Commission limited how much arties are able to spend in coordination with a Senate nominee to etween about $127,000 and $3.9 million, depending on the size ofa state’s voting-age population. For House candidates, the limits are between about $63,000 and $127,000. Parties face no limits on expenditures that are not coordinated with candidates.