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The Growing Politicization of the Judiciary

The judiciary itself has increasingly become a political battleground in America.

Judicial appointments now dominate political debates because courts influence:

• abortion policy
• election law
• executive power
• immigration
• free speech
• constitutional interpretation

Both parties now treat judicial control as central to long-term political strategy.

As a result, public trust in judicial neutrality has become increasingly polarized.

Many Americans now perceive courts through partisan lenses rather than institutional ones.

That shift worries legal scholars across the political spectrum.