This ongoing melodrama is a timely reminder of two things:
It’s not just the activist judges on the Supreme Court and the Circuit Courts who have been instrumental in destroying the country through bias or deciding to legislate from the bench.
Many lower court judges have played a big part (and still do).
Too many times seemingly staunch conservatives who are appointed to judgeships at all levels turn out to be wishy-washy liberals or hard core leftists.
But this is especially troublesome at the higher level courts.
Look at Chief Justice Roberts as a glaring recent example.
Is it the position and case load that cause them to alter their views from conservative to liberal or are other factors at work?
Liberal appointees don’t seem to become more conservative so what is behind these phenomena?
Legal education is the problem.
There’s no group of law schools from which to draw conservative judges. Originalism is history and philosophy now. It’s use in modern legal theory would dead-end the user’s career.
I predict Gorsuch will be Souter 2.0.