While this makes the case Scotus did not go 100% right wing crazy..it went ideologically counter to prevailing public opinion most of the time. The backlash will be political. Directly affecting the Court will be greater pressure to "reform" it, including expansion. Biden's answer is to appoint more lower court judges. (That may complicate the strategy of the right wing ideologues, making it harder to shop right wing ideologically devoted lower court federal judges, but they can always find one somewhere given the Trump era appointments. It would not change what happens when the case makes it to the still right wing dominated and lopsided Supreme Court).
Those angered by their decisions may also use their outrage to take revenge on any GOP candidates for congress. ..to gain a liberal majority there to repair the damage SCOTUS did to their causes. For once fence sitters may get the concept that "elections have consequences". The GOP may be the dog that caught the school bus..but the school may roll back on the dog. 40 million have student loans and 60% plus of voters oppose the end of Roe v Wade. Democrats can make hay by drawing how their legislation they support will reverse SCOTUS decisions. My mother passed a bit of political wiadom on to me. "The pendulum swings left and then it swings right..but it finally returns to the middle".
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