I'm highly critical of the present Court, but there has to be some allowances for people that just don't agree with you without crossing into this sort of despairing implications of illegitimacy . Rending one's garments at every conservative decision from a conservative court cheapens the outrage at something that is true garbage in any light, like Bush v. Gore.
Keep in mind that conservatives thinking along the lines of your post is the reasoning behind what is going on in Kansas. They don't see it as violating the living crap out of the horizontal separation of powers, rather as stopping a judicial body that they see as not doing their jobs properly.
Hopefully the Kansas Court stands fast, and the resulting mess will at least be interesting. My guess is it eventually ends with something like a 7-2 vote (Thomas and Alito dissenting) holding that the guarantee clause is both justiciable and requires an independent judiciary free of such directed funding threats. In the end, if nothing else, judges tend to circle the wagons when the power of the judiciary is at stake.
