Dispensing Justice, or Politicking?

UNLESS I'M DREAMING, the purpose of the Supreme Court is to render equal justice under law. At least, that's what it says on the top of the stately, bright white granite Supreme court building. "Equal justice under law". Therefore it follows that the people who are appointed to the high court are placed there for that purpose, and that purpose alone. The highest court in the land should be, and in theory is, above and beyoond poltics, above and beyond anybody's political agenda.In reality, its never been that way, and arguably is less that way now than ever before. The hidden but true purpose of the "SCOTUS" is, rather, to impose the political agenda of the party which has the power to place a majority of its messengers on the court. It also follows that any qualified nominee should have no discernble political agenda or ideology, if nothing else, should be a bland moderate. The more demonstrably liberal or conservative a person is, the less qualified, or so it seemingly should be. In reality, the republican party, the conservative movement has but one objective; the make the court as ideologically conservative as posible, the pask it with right wingers, to impose upon America what hit has failed to impose democratically. This, by definition, is corruption. t is corruption which we the Amerian people seem to have grown so accustomed that we accept it as normal. "Normal" is the last thing it is, or should be. The federal and state court systems suffer from the same disease. Consider Arkansas, a deeply "red" state where Trump has sixty percent support, and the governor and legislative branches are hard core conservative, passing laws against acknowledging the existence of racism in America, abridging rights for gay people, as so forth, the whole vile agenda. A vacancy on the state's suprrme court was filled by the Republican governor with none other than the chairperson of the state Republican party. Unabashed corruption. Blatant politicization of the system of justice. Corruption in government and the justice system signals a rotten, declining civilization. When the corruptiion is so deeply embedded that it is accepted as normal, and the corrupt politicians who practice it are accepted as good leaders, the societal decline is severely advanced. A recently published monograph astutely describes the problem with the current court, even only in its title: "The Shadow Docket; How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings To Amass Power and Undermine the Republic", by Stephen Vladeck. Much has been made in recent decades of the amassing of power by the executive branch at the federal level. Vladeck convincingly demonstrates that the behavior of the Supreme Court is no less concerning.