Statistics suggest that our current Supreme Court justices have some of the highest IQs in America. It seems fair to conclude, then, that six of them knew exactly what they were doing when they effectively put for-sale signs on the executive and legislative branches of the U.S. government — on the presidency, on the Senate, on the House of Representatives. 

The deciding six were Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Sam Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas. Definitely and positively, all six realized the message they were sending to candidates and their big-money organizational contributors: You can do whatever you want; the campaign spending limits of the past 55 years have become past history. 

Their decision came on the last day of the Court’s term, in the case National Republican Senatorial Committee vs. Federal Election Commission. The ruling struck down 1971 and 2001 decisions that limited how much money........

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