The legal process is a charade. The parallels to James Comey arrogating onto himself the power to break Bureau rules, his personal contract with the Bureau, and, almost certainly, laws because, in his political opinion Donald Trump must be removed, are obvious and are frightening evidence that the breakdown in the rule of law is pervasive.
The idea that the Fed should use its power to politically cripple the president United States is no less chilling than the idea that the FBI should use its power to destroy the president of the United States.
The ends justify the means philosophy has obviously penetrated the very upper echelons of our government. I would also add that the four justices on the Supreme Court of the liberal stripe undergo the same rationalization process: identify the political result desired and work backward toward the ruling and the judgment.
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The ends justify the means philosophy has obviously penetrated the very upper echelons of our government. --
And the middle ones, and the lower ones, and everything in between.
You note that SCOTUS is outcome driven. I would say that all courts are, or at least ought to be presumed so. Outcome first, rationale after. Precedents can be selected and massaged to justify ANY outcome.
The FBI isn't the only crooked cop outfit in the country. Plenty of state and local constabularies (and courts) play favorites and tinker with election results.
The point Tillis suggests, and the one I am advancing is that the law and institutions are broken in a particular way, and that way is to render the political process pointless.
Looking to the law to fix this is naive. The law cannot fix this. The law is supposed to stay out of politics, but it can't help itself, the temptation is too great. The law has decided that it will substitute itself for the political process - and you can bet it will strenuosly deny that, the same way Comey demands an apology. Phony outrage - and even what little of the outrage is real will not cure the rot.