The U.S. Supreme Court for decades has chipped away at campaign finance laws, deciding they suppress political speech in violation of constitutional protections.
A case involving Vice President JD Vance being argued next week gives the court and its conservative majority a chance to amplify this trend.
Vance, who was running for the U.S. Senate in Ohio when the litigation began in 2022, and two Republican Party committees have appealed a lower court’s ruling upholding limits set by Congress in the 1970s on how much money political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for federal offices.
