WaPo column laments 'soul-crushing task' liberal justices face working on conservative majority SCOTUS

Washington Post editor Ruth Marcus published a piece fretting over the "soul-crushing" task of being a liberal SCOTUS justice on a conservative court.

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She described the role as an almost thankless job where justices on the left are usually losing, saying "In the cases that matter most, you are consigned to almost certain loss. Victory happens, if it occurs at all, only along the doctrinal edges; winning consists of avoiding greater harm." 

Marcus found the prospect of being a liberal justice so daunting that she marveled that they still manage to have respect for the job. "So how do you keep going in the face of this? How do you convince the public — more important and perhaps more difficult, how do you convince yourself — that the institution on which you are serving for life deserves legitimacy and respect, even as it proceeds to take the law in directions with which you profoundly disagree?"