Ted Cruz’s Campaign Finance Challenge Heads to Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court will take another look at Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Tex.) challenge to federal campaign finance rules that limit the repayment of candidate loans to their campaigns.

Though a special procedure available for campaign finance challenges, a three-judge district court panel found that federal rules dictating when and how much a campaign can pay back to the candidate violated the First Amendment.

A candidate’s political expression is burdened when she is “inhibited from making a personal loan, or incurring one, out of concern that she will be left holding the bag on any unpaid campaign debt,” the lower ...