The noise of democracy fills the Capitol, while across First Street, the sound of silence rules at the Supreme Court. “The Nine” members are cloistered from all that.

Excuse me, I mean the Extreme Court, with no checks on power and no code of ethics.

Six of nine members are Republicans. In June, they sold reproductive rights down the river. Never ever in history had the Court stripped a constitutional right, which hurt the party at the polls.

Public trust in the Extreme Court sank to an all-time low. Soon, they may put federal elections under the control of state legislatures.

Shall we discuss? I write as an everyday American. We are at the mercy of six unelected, cruel judges. The clubby press that covers the Extreme Court rarely registers outrage at lowdown deeds.

The truth is, the Extreme Court is as politically polarized as America.

Congress is waking up to the crisis that looms with Chief Justice John Roberts’ 6-3 Court.

Roberts, a master of manners, was named by President George W. Bush in 2005. He carried on the steady downfall that began with the brazen Bush v. Gore case.

That 5-4 partisan decision, giving the presidency to Bush, was handed down on Dec. 12, 2000, 22 years ago.

I remember it all too well as setting a tragic stage for the 21st century.

“One man, one vote” decided the deadlocked election after Chief Justice William Rehnquist’s Court halted vote counting in Florida.

A smooth marble wall of a man, Roberts refuses to admit flaws with the Court today. “You don’t want public opinion to be the guide about what the appropriate decision is,” he says.

Roberts’ polish doesn’t crack, even with Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife working with others to overturn the 2020 election in favor of former President Donald Trump, the loser.

Thomas and Samuel Alito (author of the reproductive rights opinion) are a pair of sullen streetfighters on the far right of the Court. Alito just made a “joke” about Black children in Ku Klux Klan robes.

Thanks, Yale.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat, shouts into the wind on the “captured” Court bought with the powerful Federalist Society’s “dark money.” He’s joined in the House by Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., pressing for a code of conduct for the Extreme Court.

The rest of the federal judiciary is governed by an ethics code, including on gifts, travel and disclosure, which is only proper.

The late conservative justice, brash Antonin Scalia, died at 79 on a quail hunting expedition on a Texas ranch in 2016. President Obama failed to fight to fill his seat.

Some Extremes lead lavish lives and socialize with wealthy donors. Several appear -- unashamed -- at Federalist Society galas.

Three of the six Extreme justices, all under 60, are Trump appointees, so his fingerprints will stay on the scene of American law for a long time to come. They misled the Senate to believe they saw reproductive rights as a set precedent.

One Brett Kavanaugh was a ruthless Republican operative, aiding Kenneth Starr in his quest to grill Monica Lewinsky during Bill Clinton’s presidency. He helped organize the “preppie riot” in Florida to disrupt voting during the Bush v. Gore election case.

Kavanaugh and Thomas came under fire and scrutiny after sexual harassment allegations surfaced before they were confirmed to the bench.

Trump’s other picks, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, also came by way of Leonard Leo’s gilded “Fed Soc.” Barrett didn’t bat an eye filling the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat days before the 2020 election.

Here’s how closed their world is. Gorsuch and Kavanaugh attended the plush boys’ school, called “Prep.” Roberts clerked for Rehnquist, who also clerked at the Court. Almost all are Ivy Leaguers.

Harvard-man Roberts is more of an idealogue than he seems. Under his thumb, the Extremes disarmed the Voting Rights Act (2013) and struck down campaign finance reform (2010).

Each move hurt fair and free elections. Roberts believes giving massive sums of money is a form of free speech.

The three liberals are women. The newest, Ketanji Brown Jackson, gives me hope she’ll spark the public imagination, like Ginsburg.

Jackson may shake -- or wake -- the Extremes.

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