Let's not pretend that the SCOTUS is unbiased and just calling balls and strikes at this point. Even before revelations about what gifts Justice Thomas gets, it

Let's not pretend that the SCOTUS is unbiased and just calling balls and strikes at this point. Even before revelations about what gifts Justice Thomas gets, it was pretty obvious that conservatives were getting judges in place so that the judicial system could do things like this, things the legislative branch couldn't do without (metaphorically) slitting their own throat. Any legislator that voted for something like this would be out of a job the very next election.