Grover Norquist President of Americans for Tax Reform :
Supreme Court justices are not vulgar enough to “follow the election results.”
Sophisticated, important people in Washington D.C. are surrounded by other sophisticated important people whose entire world view bends towards the care and feeding of ever larger government. Walk by the buildings housing the powerful lobbying interests. How many press for higher spending and more state power…perhaps 99 percent. Probably more.The goal of the modern “Friends of Government “ movement — the phrase aptly used to describe Tories during the American Revolution — is to create a virtual cocktail party where the new kids in town assimilate to the dominant statist culture.
Supreme Court justices don’t have to worry about getting elected by the peasants outside the Beltway. They are tempted to please the court.
That is why the pressure of Washington culture changes some Republicans and never changes Democrats…the Democrat appointees were already fond of Kool -Aid.