There are days I despair for the future of the Republic and this is one of them. I used to say that Citizens United was the worst opinion to come from the Court since Dred Scott, but I may be wrong. After all, Dred Scott merely confirmed what was then the law and the reality - that substantial numbers of people in the United States were less than "persons" under the Constitution. Citizens United and this latest abomination arguably enslave ALL of us to Americans or foreigners (or foreign governments) who have to resources to buy elective offices all over the U. S. and at every level of government including the Presidency. Not only that, but it prevents us from even finding out before it's too late.
So, one of these days, we may all wake up to find that "our" government has become the wholly-owned subsidiary of the Koch brothers; of Exxon-Mobil; of the Peoples' Republic of China or some Saudi prince and we can just take our Constitution and Bill of Rights and put them through the shredder.
More alarming is the so-far relatively mild reaction from the White House. If there was ever a time the President should remember he has a huge microphone and a whole room full of t.v. cameras at his beck-and-call 24/7, this is it. Where is the outrage? Where is the full-throated attack on activist jurisprudence; on legislating from the bench; on just getting it flat-out WRONG? This would have been a great day for the President to summon to the White House the cosponsors of the resolution proposing to amend the Constitution to reverse Citizens United. That's the only way we're ever going to undo this mess and avert serious disaster in the years to come, but what do we get? Crickets chirping, that's what.
The Constitution establishes a Federal government with three equal branches. The President needs to remind the Court of that fact. And the first item on the agenda of the next Democratic-controlled Congress should be an investigation into the impeachment of at least two justices that I can think of. Sometimes, they need to be reminded, they may have the authority "to say what the law is", but they still aren't above it.