One thing underpinning the Supreme Court's perceived legitimacy is that vast proportions of the electorate simply don't think it's an important or interesting topic. Large numbers of people don't even have opinions about individual justices. That's probably going to change though
You can say the same about District Attorneys and such (thinking of Michael Sances's presentation on this at #CJPoliSci20). I suspect, though, that we're living through an era where people come to understand just how much *political* power these positions hold.
The common theme here is that lots of voters perceive the judicial system, from the local level to the Supreme Court, as primarily being about boring technical things, but are coming to realize that it's also about the biggest issues facing democracy.
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