Filed March 5, 2008
More recently, in McConnell the Court addressed the Act’s new prohibitions on national political parties’ receiving or spending nonfederal money (and its limits on state party committees’ spending nonfederal money on certain federal election activity). See, e.g., 2 U.S.C. § 441i(a)(1) (enacted in 2002) (“national committee of a political party . . . may not solicit [or] receive . . . a contribution . . . or spend any funds, that are not subject to the limitations . . . of this Act”) (emphasis added). Although these new provisions had the effect of prohibiting the use of nonfederal money to pay for certain activity, the Court analyzed these provisions solely as contribution limits.