That’s because the nature and role of the Supreme Court is skewed. The way it should work is that politicians draft well thought out and specific laws that then get applied by the courts using both the letter and spirit in which it was written. Only if there’s an unusual edge case or ambiguity does the Supreme Court step in and decide based on the intent of the law and the rules as set forth in the constitution both how the law applies or if the law is fundamentally flawed and needs to be reconsidered. In a properly running democracy drafting an unconstitutional law should be a career ending event for a politician, never mind actually passing one.

The way it actually works though is that politicians draft vague and poorly considered laws that the courts then abuse the fuck out of to harass and convict as many people as possible. When the powerful are inconvenienced by a law it’s brought before the Supreme Court which then decide how they’re feeling about that law on that day and pull an arbitrary ruling out of their ass.