National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Comm’n · ¶141

When this Court in McCutcheon invalidated aggregate limits, Justice Breyer wrote in dissent: “[T]oday’s decision eviscerates our Nation’s campaign finance laws, leaving a remnant incapable of dealing with the grave problems of democratic legitimacy that those laws were intended to resolve.” 572 U. S., at 233. I’m not sure what to call a remnant of a remnant, but that is what the Court has left today. And the result will be what Justice Breyer warned of: a legal regime increasingly unable to stop political corruption, and thus to preserve our institutions’ democratic legitimacy.

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