FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION
v.
COLORADO REPUBLICAN FEDERAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE
United States Supreme Court.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued February 28, 2001.
Decided June 25, 2001.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Acting Solicitor General Underwood argued the cause for petitioner. With her on the briefs were former Solicitor General Waxman, Malcolm L. Stewart, Lawrence M. Noble, Richard B. Bader, and David Kolker.
Jan Witold Baran argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Thomas W. Kirby and Carol A. Laham.*
Souter, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Stevens, O'Connor, Ginsburg, and Breyer, JJ., joined. Thomas, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Scalia and Kennedy, JJ., joined, and in which Rehnquist, C. J., joined as to Part II, p. 465.
United States Supreme Court.
Justice Souter, delivered the opinion of the Court.
In Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Comm. v. Federal Election Comm'n,518 U.S. 604 (1996) (Colorado I), we held that spending limits set by the Federal Election Campaign Act were unconstitutional as applied to the Colorado Republican Party's independent expenditures in connection with a senatorial campaign. We remanded...
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