Comment: Is the Supreme Court guided by principle or party?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

By Morgan Marietta / For The Conversation

In the summer of 2022, the U.S. witnessed a dramatic change in how the majority of Supreme Court justices understand the Constitution.

At the end of a single term, the court rejected the long-standing constitutional right to abortion, expanded gun rights and ruled that religion can have a bigger role in public institutions.

These outcomes reflect a seismic shift in U.S. law and policy, but scholars of the court dispute what kind of change it was, exactly: a principled or partisan one. As a close observer of constitutional politics, I believe this is an important debate with deep consequences for the perceived legitimacy of the court.

Some Supreme Court scholars see the court’s evolution as the rise of “a profound and principled constitutional theory,” while others see it as “conservative policy choices in pretentious garb.”

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/comment-is-the-supreme-court-guided-by-principle-or-party/

[onecaliberal]

1. The republicans on the court are for party. Especially from the 3 who were seated by

Less than legal means.

[sop]

2. The Supreme Court majority is guided by the Federalist Society.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. What the USSC *isn't* guided by:

Precedent
Stare Decisis
Judicial ethics

[Thomas Hurt]

4. driven by extremist religious and ideological beliefs

The Alito court is now an ecclesiastical court.

[3Hotdogs]

5. Principle: just not our principle.