The Supreme Court was never designed to be a political prize.
It has become one anyway.
Every president now treats Supreme Court appointments as the most important legacy decision of their term — not because they care deeply about judicial philosophy but because they are buying future outcomes. The pocket justice. The reliable vote. The insurance policy wearing a robe.
The result is a court whose decisions are predictable before the arguments are heard. Everyone knows which way each justice will rule on any politically charged question because everyone knows who appointed them and what was expected in return. That is not justice. That is scorekeeping in robes.
The fix is not complicated. It is just threatening to the people who benefit from the current arrangement.
