Supreme Court sides with Ted Cruz in his challenge to campaign finance regulations

• The Supreme Court sided with Ted Cruz in his challenge to campaign finance laws.
• The Texas senator had challenged a law that places restrictions on how loans made to political campaigns can be repaid.

The Supreme Court on Monday sided with Ted Cruz along ideological lines in his challenge to campaign finance regulations.

Cruz had challenged a campaign finance law that limits how and when candidates can recoup loans that they make to their own campaigns.

The vote was 6-3, with all three liberal justices dissenting. The majority opinion was written by Chief Justice John Roberts.

Cruz challenged Section 304 of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act which places a $250,000 limit on post-election contributions that can be used to pay back any given candidate's pre-election loans to their own campaign more than 20 days after Election day.

In Cruz's 2018 run for Senate, he had loaned his campaign $260,000, meaning the balance of $10,000 was converted into a campaign contribution 20 days post-Election Day and would not be repaid to Cruz.

Cruz argued that the regulations placed a burden on political speech, which would in turn inhibit rights guaranteed by the First Amendment.

The Court agreed with Cruz, stating in the delivered opinion that "Cruz and the Committee have standing to challenge the threatened enforcement of Section 304 of BCRA. We also conclude that this provision burdens core political speech without proper justification."