The system of checks and balances among the branches of the US government has recently broken down. First we’ll look at how the Supreme Court has been imbalanced over time:

Associate Justice: Clarence Thomas, born 1948, Catholic, George H.W. Bush nominated, seated 1991
Chief Justice: John G. Roberts, Jr., born 1955, Catholic, George W. Bush nominated, seated 2005
Associate Justice: Samuel A. Alito, Jr., born 1950, Catholic, George W. Bush nominated, seated 2006
Associate Justice: Sonia Sotomayor, born 1954, Catholic, Barack Obama nominated, seated 2009
Associate Justice: Elena Kagan, born 1960, Jewish, Barack Obama nominated, seated 2010
Associate Justice: Neil M. Gorsuch, born 1967, Catholic, Donald Trump nominated, seated 2017
Associate Justice: Brett M. Kavanaugh, born 1965, Catholic, Donald Trump nominated, seated 2018
Associate Justice: Amy Coney Barrett, born 1972, Catholic, Donald Trump nominated, seated 2020
Associate Justice: Ketanji Brown Jackson, born 1970, Protestant, Joseph Biden, seated 2022