On the last two days of the Supreme Court's term, a flurry of decisions got overshadowed by the blockbuster birthright citizenship ruling. One case that slipped through the cracks deserves more attention: NRSC v. FEC, a campaign finance decision that will reshape how American elections are funded.

The court ruled that limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with their own candidates are unconstitutional. The legal reasoning behind that outcome is sound, but it's not what's worth dwelling on here.

What matters more is the practical effect: America's political parties are about to get stronger, with far more control over their own candidates. That's a good thing, even if it doesn't feel like it yet.

Supreme Court ruling strengthens political parties

Until now, the Federal Election Campaign Act capped how much political parties could spend in coordination with their own candidates.

Political action committees and super PACs faced no such limits, but they couldn't coordinate spending with candidates the way parties can. That imbalance gave outside groups an outsized role in elections and pushed donors toward them instead of the parties.

Candidates grew more beholden to those outside groups than to their own parties, weakening party influence over their own nominees ‒ and producing more candidates who cosplay as Republicans or Democrats in pursuit of power rather than........

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