cleverly is take some of the social issues that people are genuinely concerned about, what their kids are being taught in school, for instance, which is something that would deeply affect every family, and have weaponized them into issues that show people that right in the heart of your community, there are things which the other political side are doing, which could damage your life in ways you hadn't realised. this politicising ofjustice and the law, that must be also playing a major part in these divisions, isn't it? well, certainly, since the really controversial and momentous decisions that the supreme court has taken in the last couple of weeks, touching on some of the most incendiary issues in american politics — abortion rights, gun rights and climate change. they've issued quite conservative rulings in all of those cases, as well as some other ones, too. and but the court itself is supposed to be above politics. it's supposed to look at the law and look at the constitution and come to a judicial decision