The short answer: Yes! Should it be? No! It should pay attention to legal precedent (even the fascist judges named below promised that!) and make judgements based on the facts of a case. Otherwise, you have a small group of of cantankerous old judges blathering on about things they know nothing about and continuing to execute and legislate instead of judge!
That’s the ideal. The present reality is that SCOTUS is more than political. Five extreme-right judges act like a banana-republic junta remaking the US into a fascist state! The consequence? Surprise! Surprise! 75 percent of Americans no longer trust the Supreme Court! That’s a majority of 200+ million people against five fascists in my book.
Judge Alito in so many words has stated that Americans have no right to question the court, that in effect only this junta knows what’s best for America. What an egotistical prick! He’s shown his true colors, deep red, if only by engineering the overturn of fifty years of women’s rights. And they want to continue to take away more rights!
Alito and Thomas are the Hitler and Stalin of SCOTUS who lead the other three younger fascists. (Age is relative here. They’re all old has-beens. There should have been term limits from the start!) Judge Thomas’s wife Ginny, though, an evil cross between Mao’s wife and Catherine de Medeci, is probably her husband’s muse. She even collaborated in the January 6th coup d’etat attempt!
SCOTUS is now aiding and abetting the destruction of American democracy, a wrecking ball tearing the country apart even more. The extreme polarization in the court, where these fascists and the court’s minority not only disagree but hate each other, has put the court in a horrible state: Five fascist demagogues now can overrule the legislative branch (supposedly representing the will of the people), the executive branch, and that will of the people represented by the above-mentioned majority. That indeed is the classic definition of a junta!
These five fascists are not patriots! They were never elected by the people and never should have this power! In fact, three of the five were put there by a fascist president and a fascist Senate. Hitler and Stalin are probably laughing in hell as they enjoy what these fascists are doing! Putin and Xi certainly are.
Our only solution? Short of a new civil war (that’s looking better all the time to quarantine all the insane fascists), it is ensuring that Dems win both houses of Congress in 2022 and the presidency in 2024 so that we can follow up by adding some sane legal scholars to nullify the SCOTUS fascists. If we don’t do this, we sane Americans will suffer the consequences: The birth of the Fascist States of America as we live in a fascist hell!