Until the confirmation of Justice Barrett, a variable number of conservative justices were willing to do just that and actually practiced doing that but the remaining justices, leftists all, declined to put aside their predilections.
And that explains the arithmetic of the Supreme Court until last night at about 8 PM Eastern Standard Time.
Four , sometimes five justices would not consistently put aside their personal predilections while four justices nearly always did. In other words about half the court was willing to play by the rules of the game but the opposing team was not. Any handicapper could easily pick the winners of that game.
In fact, through the tenure of Ruth Bader Ginsburg at least four justices were invariably willing, even eager to work backwards from a desired ruling bending their intellects only to "clear a path," to rationalize a predetermined outcome they "personally support."
Hopefully that imbalance in the arithmetic has now been corrected. The Democrats fear that is so hence they threaten as soon as they get the power in the Senate to take their marbles and go home. Having politicized the court, having perverted the very process of justice, having twisted the meaning of due process in doing so, the left threatens to finally destroy the court it has so selfishly politicized by packing it with more of their kind of justices.
I do not believe they will have that chance this election cycle, we will have four years at least to prepare for that new assault on the rule of law.
