A 6-3 conservative supermajority has really put the "supreme" in "Supreme Court," and not in a good way.
The court's major rulings in the term that just ended continued to defy precedents and expand its power versus the president and Congress. All the while, reports of justices' ethical transgressions mounted, and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. gave the back of his hand to calls for reform, claiming against all evidence that the justices can police themselves.
The worrisome result for our democracy is a court with more power and less legitimacy. The public's opinion of the justices remains at an all-time low, with less than a third of American voters having positive views of the Supreme Court, according to a recent NBC News poll.
