Today's Supreme Court Argument on the First Amendment Rights of Political Parties in the Campaign Finance System

In light of the Supreme Court argument taking place today on these issues, I am re-upping the post Bob Bauer and I wrote before the case was granted entitled T he Supreme Court, The Political Parties, and the SuperPacs . I’ve modified only to reflect that the Court is now hearing the case:

[The Supreme Court is hearing argument today] on whether the First Amendment prohibits Congress from limiting how much political parties can spend for their candidates through TV advertising and other public communications. By law, the parties are limited in this spending when it is coordinated with their candidates—when the candidates are involved in such decisions as content, timing, or budget. In 2024, for example, that meant that the Democratic or Republican party could spend only the trivial