If you want to see an illustrative example of Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer making decisions based on their personal ideologies and political opinions—as opposed to the actual evidence submitted in the cases before them—look no further than an order issued February 17 in American Tradition Partnership v. Bullock.

…What evidence is there before Justices Ginsburg and Breyer that the allegiance of candidates is being bought? The misinformed editorial pages of The New York Times? The propaganda spewed by MSNBC about Citizens United? And what evidence is there of “corruption” by corporations because of independent expenditures? There is none.

And why is there no mention whatsoever of spending by labor unions, which tend to spend much larger sums than for-profit corporations?

We have seen an uptick in the amount of robust political speech since the Citizens United decision, but apparently the justices believe that more political speech amounts to “corruption.” They see no problem in crippling First Amendment rights and limiting political speech. They apparently believe that protected political activity should be curtailed because it supposedly “buys” the allegiance of candidates.