Dan Weiner on the Brennan Center's Interesting Amicus Brief in the NRSC Case

Iasked Dan Weiner of the Brennan Center to write a bit about the interesting position they’ve taken in the NRSC campaign finance case. Here is his guest post:

On Monday the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law filed an amicus brief in National Republican Senatorial Committee v. FEC , a First Amendment challenge before the Supreme Court over longstanding federal limits on coordinated spending between national party committees and candidates. The Brennan Center worked with Steptoe LLP on the brief. Many thanks to Rick for letting us summarize our views here.

The brief argues that the Court should uphold these limits, while leaving questions about whether they constitute good policy to Congress.

We have previously argued that Congress should consider eliminating these same lim