The U.S. Supreme Court was envisioned by America’s founding fathers as an independent judiciary separate from the political world, designed as a fair arbiter of the law. But the 6-3 conservative majority of today’s Supreme Court has issued a number of impactful, partisan and unpopular opinions on everything from abortion access to presidential power, triggering a crisis of legitimacy for America’s highest court.

Watch the above video as Straight Arrow News contributor Ruben Navarrette argues that the U.S. Supreme Court is fundamentally broken, and that Americans must urgently discuss ways to fix it or rebuild it.

The following is an excerpt of the above video:

The Supreme Court is an institution that’s supposed to be above politics, but sadly, in its current configuration, it’s totally immersed in it. The justices routinely decide cases on abortion, First Amendment, affirmative action, policing, and even, at the end of its most recent term, a case on the January 6 insurrection. The justices routinely decide all these cases by brushing aside the facts of the case and the law and pounding politics into the table.

It’s not just that the six conservatives on the court, John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett all lean to the Right. It’s worse than that. They’ve quit leaning. Now they’ve toppled over. They don’t even pretend to be fair, neutral or impartial. They’re all in on the pursuit of their ideological agenda.

My conservative friends either haven’t noticed, or maybe they don’t care, maybe they approve it. My liberal friends, however, have definitely noticed. And they’re worried sick about how far this court will go in pursuit of the right-wing justices’ political objectives.