By John Kruzel

WASHINGTON, Dec 9 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Tuesday to hear arguments in a Republican-led challenge on free speech grounds to federal limits on spending by political parties in coordination with electoral candidates in a case involving Vice President JD Vance.

President Donald Trump’s administration has thrown its support behind the challenge, brought by plaintiffs including two Republican ‍committees and Vance, who was running for the U.S. Senate in Ohio when the case began. The case centers on whether federal limits on coordinated campaign spending violate the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment protection against government abridgment of freedom of speech.

The challengers have appealed a lower court’s ruling that upheld restrictions on the amount of

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