Politics in the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court, as designed by the American Constitution, is a body of the judiciary that is supreme and independent of overt political incursion and involvement. The justices are not popularly elected and are supposedly nominated and appointed for the primary purpose of judging case law decisively and in an unbiased manner. The reality of how the Supreme Court operates runs afoul of the ideal. Instead of a separate entity unaffected by the gale force winds of political change, the Court is a body of nine justices, all with different agendas and varying backgrounds. The process of how cases are heard in the Court and how cases are decided is biased by justices toward certain overall trends ideologically. The Supreme Court is not an inhuman entity that judges others without preconceived notions; rather, it is a very human institution that is and will always be affected by political ideologies and personal feelings. The Supreme Court is political and, despite expectations to the contrary, should remain political.