Supreme Court Roundup: Another Banner Week for ACLJ
In a powerful trio of rulings handed down in recent days, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered major victories for free speech, constitutional structure, and Fourth Amendment protections. Once again, the Court followed key arguments advanced by the ACLJ in our amicus filings.
These decisions reaffirm that political speech deserves robust protection, that the president must have the authority to supervise the Executive branch, and that the government cannot engage in dragnet surveillance of Americans’ private location data without proper constitutional safeguards. At the ACLJ, we are thrilled. The Supreme Court applied precedent, respected constitutional boundaries, and rejected overreach—exactly the principles we urged in our briefs.
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The Supreme Court delivered a major victory for free speech and political participation in National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission. In a 6-3 decision, the Court struck down longstanding federal limits on coordinated expenditures by political parties, ruling that such restrictions violate the First Amendment.
Justice Kavanaugh, writing for the majority, held that the Federal Election Campaign Act’s caps on how much parties can spend in coordination with their own candidates unconstitutionally burden core political speech. Campaign spending by parties on behalf of their candidates is protected expression, not something the government can arbitrarily limit.
The ACLJ filed an amicus brief supporting this outcome,........
