Another rant---Dear Mr. Thomas:
Notice, please, that I did not address you as "Justice". That honorific does not belong in the same sentence with your name, let alone in front of it.
I have but one question for you: when you and the other five partisan hacks now befouling the bench you sit on so transparently abandon decades-old precedents that the overwhelming majority in this nation considered near-sacred "settled law", how in hell are the cops and local judges from coast to coast across the fruited plain supposed to answer those who say "Laws don't matter any more! Don't bother me with your supposed rules. If the SCOTUS can ignore the rules, so can I!"
For now, I will not get into just how pathetically stupid your "historical analysis" was. An honest person would have just admitted that they were nominated and approved for the purpose of making this and other authoritarian decisions and your "reasoning" amounted to a snarky "BECAUSE!"
An answer, if you please: why should the rubes out here in fly-over country obey the law if such as you represent it?