Supreme Court Sides With Republicans in TV Ad Fight
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Republican groups had asked the court to clear the way for political parties to pay the same low-cost ad rates as candidates, a move that could undercut a Democratic advantage in the midterms.
Listen · 4:24 min Share full article National Republican groups had filed an emergency application to the Supreme Court asking the justices to step in and clear the way for them to get the lower TV ad rates. Credit... Kenny Holston/The New York Times By Abbie VanSickle
The ruling focused on an obscure but crucial part of political campaign funding that has given Democrats an advantage in recent years.
The court’s majority found that Republican Party committees were likely to suffer “irreparable harm” unless the justices cleared the way for them to receive the low-cost ad rates, finding that requiring party committees to pay more for advertising would hamper “their efforts to reach the electorate in the critical weeks leading up to the midterms.”
The majority added that such an injury “implicates their First Amendment rights to speak and coordinate their political activities freely.”
As is typical in such emergency applications, the order did not include a vote count. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, one of the court’s liberals, dissented.
The dispute focuses on the 1971 Federal Election Campaign Act, which set out rules for how broadcasting stations must interact with political candidates during election seasons.
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