The Constitution set up a checks and balances system with executive, legislative, and judicial branches, none of which is to be preeminent. Over the years there has been some jostling and some shifts in relative power and influence among the three branches. The Congress can, in principle, pass laws and even amend the Constitution counter to what the court has previously done. But the current Congress is paralyzed,vso nothing is likely to be corrected.

Unfortunately, the government is fucked, and it arguably goes back to the original compromises made in the Constitution to appease various agrarian states' concerns about the possibility that less populous states would be marginalized by more populous states. The attempts to equalize influence among states resulted in individual voters having grotesquely disparate vote value.

Congress has changed its rules for conducting legislative work, and in recent years has paralyzed itself in gridlock by requiring 60% to move legislation forward, and in some cases it allows a single Senator to kill bills. Given the highly polarized state of the country and its elected reps, the conservatively stacked court can render rulings largely condemned by the majority, and the Congress is impotent to correct it. In the short term, it is fucked up.

Fed apple. The country is FUBAR. The religious conservatives/right wing have spent the last 100 years trying to turn back the clock. Liberals didn’t bother to vote or went with third party candidates—all the way back to Gore v. Bush.

We are self centered and not very smart, we are easily led by lies, and do not really care about each other in a political sense. In short, we are uneducated idiots who like bright lights.

It is called corruption. The justices lied during their confirmation vowing to respect Roe and Stare Decisis. McConnell broke the law (with impunity) to withhold Gorsuch's nomination, and to allow affirmation of Kavanaugh without an FBI vetting. He was affirmed in spite of demonstrating manifest unfitness (revealing himself to be a psychopathic partisan). Similarly, Barrett is also a nut-job and only voted in along partisan lines. Thomas's nomination proceeded even though other accusers went unheard. (Also, Ginsburg failing to retire during a democrat administration didn't help. She did not anticipate or grasp the level of corruption the GQP would sink to with Trump & McConnell.)

From Wikipedia: 'Two women, Angela Wright and Rose Jourdain, made statements to Senate staffers in support of Hill. Ultimately, however, Wright and Jourdain were dismissed by the Judiciary Committee without testifying... ... Wright herself was reluctant to testify after seeing the Committee's treatment of Hill, including Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter stating that he felt Hill's testimony was perjurious in its entirety...

SCOTUS currently consists of six Catholics, two Protestants, and one Jew, 9 in total (hardly representing the entire US population). I believe that in the US, judges are directly nominated by the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, which is not allowed in the UK (the UK Supreme Court is an institution independent of the government). So, with religious bias together with political bias, how can SCOTUS deliver democracy properly? This is how much I know about SCOTUS. I'm learning.

The Republicans hijacked democracy

First, the USA is NOT a Democracy at th Federal level, nor was it ever intended to be one.

Second, we are a nation of laws, Judges review laws in ALL countries.

Third, the USA has always left most decisions to States. Read the last paragraph of our Constitution and perhaps you will understand.

Our Constitution establishes three branches of government intended to check and balance each other: the judiciary, the executive and the legislative branch. SCOTUS, the Supreme Court of the US is our final judicial arbiter. Its judges are appointed for life, although many judges in the US are elected by term.

It has worked okay until now, but is another aspect of our Constitution that needs to be revised after more than 200 years. The framers of our Constitution could not even have imagined our way of life today, in fact many of them were slave owners. Our Constitution was intended to change and has been amended many times but conservatives by definition fear change and wish to turn the clock back, not forward.

Thanks for asking.

Since appointed judges do not have to run or campaign for re-election they do not have to rely on campaign funds that come from other lawyers and businesses that may end up in that court room later on. They cannot be corrupted by money and kickbacks. Why do you think so many elected officials in America get in trouble and end up in jail after they are elected for rewarding their constituents

Technically I think it's interpretation of laws on the books. Roe interpreted right to privacy under the 14th amendment to cover abortion. Dobbs interpreted that the original ruling was wrong.