GOP campaign arms ask Supreme Court to intervene in TV ad rate case

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Today's Top Stories - August 31, 2026

Today's Top Stories - August 31, 2026

The GOP’s campaign arms asked the Supreme Court on Friday to step in and allow them to buy television ads at the cheapest rate ahead of the midterms after a federal appeals court ruled that only candidates are entitled to the special rate.  

“In the midst of election season, a divided Fourth Circuit panel just rewrote longstanding rules about preferential broadcast rates for political ads,” lawyers for National Republican Senatorial Committee and its House counterpart wrote in an emergency appeal.  

“Applicants have budgeted tens of millions of dollars in ad buys under these rules,” they added. “But because of the Fourth Circuit’s decision, broadcast stations are already rescinding those rates.”

A panel for the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held in a 2-1 decision last week that super........

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