Roe vs Wade vs SCOTUS legitimacy

[Dill]

(05-04-2022, 12:31 PM)Au165 Wrote: If you don't think going after settled law on religious rulings expanding religious rights that have been controversial, 2A rulings, and so on aren't now squarely in play on a court shift the other way you are fooling yourself. The supreme court is now a weaponized tool of a two party political system like we have never seen and as I said, it's only going to get worse over the next few decades.

Well at his confirmation Alito loudly affirmed that judges' should not let their personal beliefs sway their judgment. And they should not be swayed by popular noise--what "the people" want--and just follow the law in perfect neutrality. So all those justices selected by the Federalist Society and deftly engineered away from Obama and Biden for Trump nomination--we should assume their conclusions are based on law alone. 

That their legal theory led them to a completely neutral reading of Roe, which happened to conform to their private beliefs, is clearly more coincidence than anything. This new neutrality may, as you say, "shift the court the other way" on a number of important issues, but I firmly believe that future rulings will be just as neutral as this one. The era of activist judges is OVER!

I'm reminded of all the contention over new voting rights laws in various states, which are similarly neutral and don't mention race at all.

Why do Dems have to politicize everything?