I want to bring something to people’s attention. The courts are being used as toys by the Trump campaign. I think, of the conservative judges, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito see any interaction with campaign issues as an opportunity to assert their political preferences. I don’t see that with Chief Justice Roberts. He sees the implementation of legal actions within politics for what it is and sends these problems back to the lower courts or dismisses them with having no standing. I have a feeling Coney-Barrett aligns closer to that then not. However, it is just too soon to evaluate her and Gorsuch.
Kavanaugh is a wild card that plays to the president for his own reasons. There is nothing scholarly about wild cards within the rule of law, With Kavanaugh and his opinions that he pulls out of his posterior there is no scholarly interpretation so much as appearing to be more socially acceptable to the extremist right wing. He chronically attempts to set precedent to attempt a right wing takeover of the country. Kavanaugh is the real definition of an activist judge. It is unprecedented corruption of the Supreme Court. I sincerely believe Kavanaugh is profoundly unable to be even an adequate judge.
But, that said, I believe John Roberts wants to see less use of the courts to settle or institute political priorities. Rather than the Supreme Court deciding constitutional correctness most cases these days are about loopholes. Cases reaching the Supreme Court that are best decided by the lower courts or best to simply dismiss are good decisions based in the understanding the Supreme Court is being abused by those that try to solicit politics rather than the Rule of Law. Those cases aren’t great patriotic moments to right the wrong based in constitutional authority. Rather, they are attempts by financial clout to customize the US Construction wrongfully.
