[DigiDigiorno]

Lawyer here.

"[A]nyone that actually reads Supreme Court decisions" is the pertinent part of your comment. That is a very small group of people,* and usually a very quiet one that doesn't jump to the conclusion that the court is "illegitimate". The vast majority of the 50+ decisions each year do not make the news and the plurality of them are decided unanimously.**

* Basically nobody, unless it's their job, reads every case. However it is normal to follow a site like SCOTUSblog.com and get summaries to stay in the know.

** I guess check out any of the years here: https://www.scotusblog.com/reference/stat-pack/

[yieldcrv]

I wish the common discourse was at this level

There is so much distorted information fueling people’s emotions, but the contents of the cases are actually very interesting and illuminating of many options left open for people to get closer to what they want, like when judges point out “well maybe if you brought a case forward this other way, we could evaluate these outstanding questions” but nobody passionate about a cause reads this stuff and only reacts to the outcome