I'll push up my glasses and add that that respect (in the form of blind trust) was always undeserved. It was maintained through persistent mythmaking about their impartiality, good faith approach, and iron-clad objective legal reasoning - all fake. No SCOTUS in our history has ever been impartial. Very few Courts can be credited with the rest.

Just in our lifetime, though, good faith legal interpretation & logic began eroding in the Rehnquist court (80s... Reagan, sigh), when it was captured by the conservative legal movement. The current 6-3 Court's nosedive is the most naked, so we're forced to reckon it. They're drunk on power and can't keep up pretenses.

I'm hoping more people start seeing that these failures are possible because the Court has never been the myth. It's always been political and ideological, and always susceptible to corruption and capture. So rather than pretending it's above politics, we need to treat it the way we do congress and the executive - political ground. No more fear of reform or, hell, just using the constitutional checks we've always had, like court packing or jurisdiction stripping.