C'mon, Obama did it too. And to pretend that the supreme court is some neutral arbiter of justice ignores it's history as a political institution that can be pressured.
Not that there is no such thing as a neutral arbiter of justice mind you, but the outsized role of the presidency *and judiciary* is an effect of the congress and our political system at large being unable to get anything done, in part because of the filibuster and also the divided nature of our government