Supreme Court takes up major new challenge to campaign finance restrictions

[thesquanderer]

7. I actually don't think this is such a big deal...

...because it's relatively minor compared to the bigger problem we already have. It's like being concerned about the draft from an open window when half the house has already fallen down.

from the article:

Under current law, amended over the years by the Supreme Court and Congress, parties can make unlimited independent expenditures in support of a candidate but cannot exceed limits on coordinated spending

This is about permitting that coordination. The total available to spend would not be changed. Only the ability for them to coordinate with the actual campaign in terms of how and where they spend. Sure, it's bad, but considering the bigger issue of all the money going into parties and pacs in the first place, I suspect the inability to (officially ) coordinate their activities with the campaigns isn't so much of an impediment to begin with, and that the real-world impact would not be so great. In a sense, to a great extent, that ship has already sailed.