Any judge or Justice who watched the news clips on television saw the nation descend into an era of rank relativism. Cities having seceded from the union and obstructed the enforcement of federal immigration law, city blocks seceding from the union to establish their own mini republic shamefully unopposed by city fathers, cities set ablaze nightly while sovereign governments stood passive or even encouraged such lawlessness, all the result of a pandemic of relativism. Every institution in America from academia to Wall Street, Hollywood, big news media, big tech, and big sports sided with or even financially contributed to the blatant lawlessness. The judges and Justices were instructed nightly about the world of relativism.
One illustration only is needed to prove the case: our Supreme Court saw the raw, naked power of those in charge of relativism when they saw the truth of Hunter Biden's laptop being suppressed and even inverted. They saw what happened to those who advanced the truth of Hunter Biden's laptop. They saw every institution from our Justice Department, the FBI, our state justice systems, the graybeards of our intelligence community, both political parties, including the Republican Party, and the majority of Congress willfully ignore and even pervert the manifest truth revealed by the laptop. If the powers that be could smother or invert the reality of Biden's laptop, who will deny their power to enforce a fraudulent election?
The sheer brazenness of the summer lawlessness and the in your face domination by the forces of relativism would clearly instruct any observer in the courts, or anywhere, of the folly of crossing these powers. The price of heroic dissent today is not martyrdom but cancellation. In the postmodern era of relativism the court simply sought to evade cancellation for themselves and instead canceled justice.
We have not only lost this war in the Supreme Court, we lost it in every major American institution. The Supreme Court is merely falling in line. If we expect one institution to do otherwise we indulge in folly. If we are to recover the Republic it must be done one institution at a time and one absolute truth at a time.

“ The sheer brazenness of the summer lawlessness and the in your face domination by the forces of relativism would clearly instruct any observer in the courts, or anywhere, of the folly of crossing these powers.”
Interesting observation. I hadn’t thought about the contribution of the recent lawlessness to this judicial cowardice.
I had actually been thinking more in terms of the reverse, the savage display of government power that we have seen with these lockdown measures and their increasingly far reaching nature and harsh enforcement (which Biden and President Fauci plan to extend).
So it was a two-pronged approach, and the permitting of lawlessness for certain groups was a strategy of the left...to be followed by the repression of the general population.