That doesn't stop them any other time, why should it stop them now? The far-right majority on the Court has every motive to retaliate once the rubicon has been crossed on this. They're not like Roberts. All five of them are fucking psycho, the least psycho of them is Kavanaugh.
Have to admit, any time that sorta application of 'far right', I do have to wonder if the perception of the political spectrum is tuned accurately. Using it that broadly covers so many people it is frankly ridiculous.
Seriously, it has the same energy as calling all the remaining judges 'far left'. I doesn't really mean anything anymore.
There is nothing ridiculous about it. If someone believes in a nativist, authoritarian, bigoted political philosophy, they are far-right. It's not any harder to be far-right than center-right, center-left, or far-left. You don't have to put on a Klan hood, you just need to believe in a politics that makes Klan hoods into Decent Folk Who Just Want Order.
Thomas - Literally believes in a pre-civil war conception of legal philosophy that even the main """originalist""" movement rejects, thinks the Equal Protection Clause means the government
shouldn't be able to make civil rights laws.
Alito - Has no legal philosophy beyond the long-term enforcement of RNC minority rule, moderate theocrat.
Gorsuch - Human text parsing machine, resolves all inherent conflicts with this idea by appealing to dead slavers.
Kavanaugh - Has no legal philosophy. He's got every trait one would expect from a dog, all except loyalty. He'll fall in line if told to.
Barrett - Theocrat and dominionist. Flat out. And for an extra level of crazy, being a woman theocrat makes this so much worse. She's a
true believer to want to subjugate herself.
These people can compose themselves in public. They're ruling class representatives. But don't think for a second that they won't legalize torture and criminalize voting, or anything else that the RNC thinks might get them back in power someday should they lose. And if they win? I don't even dare to think of it. The existing court is bad, but as bad is it has been they have been
held back by Robert's fear of being remembered as the man who killed the court all these years. That's about to change.