SCOTUS determined to let rich people buy our government

As bad as the Supreme Court decision on Citizens United was, SCOTUS just made it even worse yesterday with its decision to gut another limit on political contributions.   Here's how Huffington Post's Paul Blumenthal and Ryan Grim put it: 

After Wednesday's Supreme Court decision in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission striking down aggregate limits on campaign contributions, the rules governing campaign money are crumbling around us.

What's left is an incoherent system in which donors can make unlimited contributions anonymously to certain entities engaging in politics, but must attach their name to unlimited giving to other groups, and are blocked from making unlimited contributions directly to candidates. Clearly, such a bundle of contradictions can't last. Chief Justice John Roberts, who said in pre-confirmation that he would be guided by precedent, is just as clearly determined to see the remaining restrictions fall, as are the other four Republican appointees on the Supreme Court. It's no longer a matter of if, but when.

That's about the size of it.   And there may not be a lot that Congress can do that would stand up to constitutional challenge now that the Roberts Court has declared corporations as having the rights of people.    The only way may be to keep electing Democratic presidents and congresses until one of the five conservatives on the court leaves room for another liberal justice.   Then they can overturn these decisions.

Until then, it's a big uphill battle against SCOTUS giving the green light to all that money to conservative causes, plus the Republicans' control of state houses that redraw district lines to keep a Republican House and restrict voting rights.

Ralph