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Most people, in my experience, like to think of themselves as centrists ("Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, ...")
Then maybe that’s your problem. You are much further to the Right than you like to think.
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But anyway, the idea of trying to fix a political makeup of the court falls apart when you realize that justices aren't supposed to rule on the basis of their political views, as you've conceded by ridiculing the idea that a white supremacist or global warming denier justice would be justified by public opinion.
This is foolish again. Judges are not supposed to rule according to silly dogmas associated with ideologies, but that is hardly the limit of politics. There is the whole question of judicial philosophises, for a start. Not to mention biases based in political standpoints.
It seems to me that the Supreme Court of all courts is badly in need of checks on judge’s bias - and especially when judges do let their political views colour their decisions.