And if the election doesn’t do right (and maybe even if it does), this will result in a 4 - 4 decision in SCOTUS, as currently comprised. Disaster in the making.
Exactly right.
The 2dA does not confer any right and ruling that a right can be denied because it isn't found in the 2d is plainly incorrect.
What the 2d does do is expressly and clearly prohibit the type of government behavior this court has just displayed.
All of which, as you indicate, the leftists among us will be happy to ignore.