“But they (JBS, etc) are flawed torah scholars with some opinions based on foreign influences and as such have biases that prevent them from being termed gedolei yisroel to whom i must be machniah.
Sounds like you would subscribe to the views of the late Justice Scalia who was famous for stedfastly refusing to join any portions of his colleague’s opinions that implicitly were based on foreign influences and sarcastic dismissal of any judicial citations of foreign law to establish that the position was consistent with chukas hagoyim. However, that disagreement never spilled over to a personal level as noted in a hesped of Scalia by the infamous RBG who (along with the Court’s other Yiddeshe Justice) was probably the most frequent author of opinions with such citations.