This is a myth. The Supreme Court is and always has been political. There are "textualists". That's propaganda. There are many examples of this. Take the infamous Dread Scott [1] decision:
> ... the Court held that the United States Constitution was not meant to include American citizenship for people of African descent, regardless of whether they were enslaved or free, and so the rights and privileges that the Constitution confers upon American citizens could not apply to them.
A less well-known example is the Colfax massacre [2]:
L An estimated 62-153 black militia men were killed while surrendering to a mob of former Confederate soldiers and members of the Ku Klux Klan.
In United States v. Cruikshank [3] the Supreme Court[4]:
> ... overturned all three convictions on the basis that the indictments were vague and general and had not specified that the victims were deprived of their constitutional rights on the basis of their race or colour.
This is just as stark in interpretation of the Second Amendment. Even though the Amendment was created to give the states the right to form a militia in the event of a slave rebellion (the Southern States were concerned the Federal government wouldn't come to their aid) this went through massive reinterpretation in the 20th century and was ultimate recognized as an individual right in 2008 [5] despite the words "well-regulated milita".
Civil forfeiture is an abomination. The Supreme Court if indeed it was lofty and apolitical would've struck it down long ago as a clear Fourth Amendment violation but they haven't. The construction of forfeiture as a civil procedure for criminal proceeds is tortuous logic at best, right up there with the Court not striking down Texas's SB8 despite it's novel end-run against standing by excluding government officials (which, if upheld, would allow any cosnitutional protection to be bypassed).
Civil forfeiture is nothing more than the continuing echoes of a country founded on white supremacy and the horrors of chattel slavery. It is state violence and the illegal seizure of the assets of the predominantly poor and further evidence that we've never had and never more desperately needed a reckoning with our racist past and present.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott_v._Sandford
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colfax_massacre
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Cruikshank
[4]: http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S...
[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller