High court hands GOP key campaign finance win before costly elections

The Supreme Court handed Republican campaign arms a significant campaign finance victory on Friday, scuttling an effort by Democrats to slash the GOP’s cash advantage in the midterm elections.The high court ruled 8-1 to halt a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit that excluded political parties and joint fundraising committees from accessing favorable television advertisement rates reserved for political candidates. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only noted dissent to the order. The Friday ruling came months after the Supreme Court handed the National Republican Senatorial Committee a major win earlier this year by striking down limits on coordinated spending between political parties and candidates as unconstitutional, opening up the floodgates to more spending.

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