I hear this all the time but I have to say I have not seen actual data that supports it.

To take perhaps the highest-profile issue when it comes to judges: access to abortion remains federally protected today despite the last 5 Republicans promising to nominate judges to reverse that.

And that’s only because there have consistently been a majority of liberal judges.

Just this term they made decisions both forcing states to fund religious schools if they find secular private schools and in a separate decision, said that religious institutions have the right to discriminate.

Now we have a condition where my taxes must pay for people who could conceivably discriminate against me.

If RBG had retired or passed away before the recent abortion case, Roe v Wade would almost certainly have been overturned fully or partially a few days ago. The court voted 5-4 to uphold and whatever hyperconservative federalist society nutjob Trump would have nominated to replace her would virtually have guaranteed the opposite result.

Abortion isn't the only relevant case that the court could overturn, we have decisions like Citizens United that have essentially gutted the political process for a generation and in the past few days the courts have handed massive wins to Churches and conservatives that allow them to discriminate freely. To pretend the courts don't have massive power to dictate daily life in the US seems to be denying obvious truths.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/04/supreme-court-decision-in-lo...