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Campaign Legal Center · United States · Supreme Court strikes down post-Watergate limits on party-to-candidate coordinated spending, 6-3
Campaign Legal Center, which defended the coordinated-spending caps in court, warned that the ruling 'removes the last guardrail against parties becoming shadow campaigns' and that combined with Citizens United and McCutcheon, 'there is now no federal limit on the total amount of money a party can funnel to any candidate.' Published a memo on July 1 laying out which FECA provisions remain on the books and which are now inoperative.
“With no limits on coordinated expenditures, the party can serve as the candidate's checking account.”