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The big red flag that the Supreme Court was going to be aggressive and lawless - and people pointed it out at the time - was the student debt relief ruling
Without thinking too deeply about the ruling itself: the glaring flaw in that case is that the state who filed suit against the federal government did not have legal standing to sue a third party. When the claimant doesn't have standing, the court doesn't have cause or jurisdiction to hear the case and write a ruling
But there's no higher court to appeal bad rulings to, so the Court ignored the question of legal standing in order to take up the case and write the opinion it wanted to give to create the effect it wanted to have
All of its rulings should be read that way: what practical, political effects is the court trying to achieve?
Yes, that means they're choosing to be bad judges on purpose
Given that the Biden administration has known about this problem for basically the entirety of its existence,
they really ought to have come up with some kind of plan by now