I don't think you understand how little the SCOTUS is influenced by the media and popular opinion.
They live very cloistered lives. They don't even meet as a group informally. They rarely visit each other in their chambers. Their clerks do most of the legal work which in the end really doesn't move them in one direction or another.
Bottom line is whatever information does come out, the Court is loath to jump into a political question, especially one that pits the power of the judicial branch against the executive branch
“Bottom line is whatever information does come out, the Court is loath to jump into a political question, especially one that pits the power of the judicial branch against the executive branch”.
Then I guess that Bush v. Gore was just something we ALL collectively dreamed up in a pot smoke haze ...