Is the Supreme Court still legitimate?

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3. No Public perception of legitimacy matters greatly. It is the only reason that states & other courts

do not act in opposition to SCOTUS opinions, but instead, defer to them. Given the increasing move from centuries of high court norms and the overt politicization towards religious or other ideology, not to mention the refusal to recuse on cases that are self-beneficial, the court SHOULD be totally revamped and brought under Federal court ethics requirements/penalties. If it does not, the RW may well find their hold on the court to be a double-edged sword--held against them. I think we've reached critical mass, even if it takes a few more years...

Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.