This isn't "Dysfunction"

The Supreme court is doing what it is doing because it has an agenda, and the people were put into their roles because they would push that agenda. They all come from specific "schools of thought" about reforming America in a tremendously shitty way, and most have specific "Loyalty" events from history, including at least one being part of the election shenanigans of 2000.

It's a directed effort, a strategy.

It's republican policy.