GOP Gets Supreme Court Review on Political Party Spending Caps

The US Supreme Court agreed to consider Republican calls to strike down federal caps on the money political parties can spend on advertisements in coordination with congressional candidates.

Heeding requests from two GOP campaign committees and the Trump administration, the justices said they will review a federal appeals court decision that upheld the 51-year-old spending limits.

The case could prompt the justices to overrule a 2001 decision that sustained the restrictions as a means of tackling corruption and ensuring donors don’t use parties as a conduit to circumvent separate limits on direct contributions to candidates. More broadly, the new clash ...