Don’t miss Linda’s latest NYT online column, which concludes:

Now it appears that the chief justice and his allies may have overreached. With 37 cases argued so far this term, the court left town having decided a scant four. There is some speculation that a prolonged internal struggle over how far to go in Citizens United has sucked the air out of the term. The court’s silence, of course, proves only that it had nothing ready for prime time. Perhaps a tactical retreat to minimalism is in the offing, as happened last term, when the court’s conservatives teed up a constitutional evisceration of the Voting Rights Act, only to back down in the end.
I may not be sure what I think about how to regulate money in politics, but I’m confident of this prediction: that no matter how the court rules, it will not fix the old problems and — if the past is any guide– just might create new ones.