Republican Senator John McCain, co-crafter of the McCain-Feingold Act and his party’s 2008 presidential nominee, said “there’s going to be, over time, a backlash . .

. when you see the amounts of union and corporate money that’s going to go into political campaigns.” McCain said that he was disappointed by the decision of the Supreme Court and the lifting of the limits on corporate and union contributions

Constitutional law scholar Laurence H. Tribe wrote that the decision “marks a major upheaval in First Amendment law and signals the end of whatever legitimate claim could otherwise have been made by the Roberts Court to an incremental and minimalist approach to constitutional adjudication, to a modest view of the judicial role...

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