This really is the result of a highly politicized judiciary. We walked down this path with the Warren/Burger civil rights things that drove the SCOTUS front-and-center of American life, and the post-Bork nominations in which people are blocked based on ideology not criteria.

I blame both sides.

I am also not saying these recent decisions are ideology driven or not, but I am saying that a lot of trust and respect has been squandered.

Now if one side doesn't like it decision it is always blamed on "those damn Liberal/Conservative judges" putting their ideology above the good of the country. This is added in no small part by every headline referring to Judges as "rebuking" or otherwise personally acting to stop/enable one side or the other's agenda.

And saying that we have to nominate certain Justice candidates because of their race/gender doesn't help either. If you're on one side you're thrilled by the "wise Latina" but then that opens the other side to saying "a Hispanic judge won't rule based on the law, but on racial lines".

I have warned before about how politicizing every SCOTUS decision is eroding trust and respect in the court and we continue to see it.