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By MARK SHERMAN<\/strong><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Supreme Court on Tuesday erased limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president, striking down a federal election law that is more than 50 years old.<\/p>\n

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Prodded by a Republican-led lawsuit that includes Vice President JD Vance, the court\u2019s conservative justices were again in the majority of the latest decision that upended congressionally enacted limits on raising and spending money to influence elections. The court\u2019s 2010 Citizens United decision opened the door to unlimited independent spending in federal elections.<\/p>\n

The limits on party spending stem from a desire to prevent large donors from skirting caps on individual contributions to a candidate by directing unlimited sums to the party, with the understanding that the money will be spent on behalf of the candidate.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court had previously upheld the limits, in 2001.<\/p>\n

The Republican committees for House and Senate candidates filed the lawsuit in Ohio in 2022, joined by Vance, then a senator from Ohio, and then-Rep. Steve Chabot.<\/p>\n

After President Donald Trump took office for his second term, the Federal Election Commission dropped its defense of the law and joined with Republicans in urging that it be overturned.<\/p>\n

Democrats had called on the court to uphold the law, even though there is wide agreement that the spending limits have hurt political parties in an era of unlimited spending by other organizations.<\/p>\n

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Last year, the coordinated party spending for Senate races ranged from $127,200 in several states with small populations to nearly $4 million in California, the most populous state. For House races, the limits were $127,200 in states with only one representative and $63,600 everywhere else.<\/p>\n

Entrenched divisions between liberal and conservative justices over campaign finance restrictions were on display when the court heard arguments in December.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time we interfere with the congressional design, we make matters worse,\u201d said Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a dissenter in Citizens United and the court\u2019s other campaign money cases.<\/p>\n

By contrast, Justice Samuel Alito, a member of the Citizens United majority, described the decision as \u201cmuch maligned, I think unfairly maligned.\u201d The effect of the decision was to \u201dlevel the playing field,\u201d Alito said, by expanding the right to spend freely that had previously belonged only to media companies.<\/p>\n

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Follow the AP\u2019s coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court at https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/us-supreme-court.<\/em><\/p>\n

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