The Supreme Court is caught in a crisis of its own making.There is the gross corruption of Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito, who have received millions of dollars in gifts and benefits from various billionaire benefactors.There is the court’s open assault on the basic rights of tens of millions of Americans, exemplified in its decision to overturn the constitutional right to an abortion on the basis of a vague and inconsistent standard of “text, history and tradition.”And there is the hubris of Chief Justice Roberts, who, the legal scholar Eric J. Segall writes, has “led the court to...