Coordinated Campaign Spending Caps Stand After Appellate Review

The full Sixth Circuit on Thursday declined to touch limits on coordinated spending between political parties and federal candidates in a closely-watched campaign finance case brought by Republicans that appears teed up for review by the US Supreme Court.

The nation’s highest court said the limits were constitutional in 2001 in FEC v. Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee, the majority of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said. Until that precedent is overturned, the judges on the Cincinnati-based appeals court are bound by it, Chief Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton wrote.

“The Supreme ...