CREW statement on NRSC v FEC

Today, the Supreme Court ruled that limits on political parties’ coordinated expenditures violate the First Amendment in NRSC v FEC. Following this ruling, CREW President Donald K. Sherman released the following statement:

“Yet again, the Supreme Court ignored the real-world impacts of its decision to grant high dollar donors greater influence over our democracy. Its justification for striking down the sensible limits on coordination between parties and candidates, which it quite recently upheld, is laughably weak. Earmarking and bribery enforcement are not enough to prevent the corruption this decision invites. This decision, as with its other campaign finance decisions since Citizens United, will inevitably render the government more responsive to special interests and indifferent to the demands of the American people.”