“The court doesn’t have an army that it sends in to enforce its decisions,” Jessica Levinson, a professor at LMU Loyola Law School, told U.S. News & World Report. “They rely on us thinking they’re legitimate. And so a crisis of confidence or a feeling that the court is illegitimate, and that they’re just packed with political actors, not judges, it can truly become a crisis where we would no longer have three branches of government. They rely on us adhering to what they say even when we vehemently disagree with it.”
Source: U.S. News & World Report
Historically Low Public Trust, Legitimacy Questions Mar Supreme Court’s Return