With a 4-4 USSC appeals court decisions will all stand and the opportunity to rush up a bunch of cases through friendly courts to overturn things like the 1st and 2nd Amendments, at least in the jurisdictions of those lower courts should occasion some alarm.
And the GOP? Congress *COULD* step in a say a thing or two. Course, they’re of the same cloth that the SCOTUS is sacra-sanct and the end-all (no, that’s We the People).
Just think of the problems of judicial activism that could have been thwarted if they lifted a single idea of, “We WILL cut you off...”.