Buried beneath headlines about birthright citizenship and transgender athletes was a story of how the U.S. Supreme Court delivered one of the most significant free-speech victories in recent history. 

In National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission, the court reaffirmed that the government cannot arbitrarily restrict the public from speaking and organizing simply because a political party is doing it for them. The decision strikes down onerous federal limits on coordinated spending between political parties and the candidates they nominate; restrictions that treated political association as something nefarious to be regulated rather than free association to be protected.