Seems he came to believe that the political legitimacy of the Court was being called into question. Maybe if he had been sequestered from all news this wouldn’t have happened!
The question is, should the Supreme Court Justice really be gauging things like that, and factoring it into his decision? You can certainly argue NO, but “fair” lawyer types like my husband would argue “why not?”
And keep in mind we are both pretty much libertarians in this house, yet we don’t agree on this.