The supreme court is one of the great evils in this country. It has taken on a far different and more activist role than was ever intended. I believe that it will help split this country by creatingdeep divisions by reinterpreting the law and destroying the constitution. Many of our Founding Fathers had this concern as well It has been a gradual decline that is will be excelerated with people such as Sotomayor on the SC. This country is headed for some dark days and a civil war of sorts in my opinion.
It’s already happened. Judicial activism was behind the Civil War:
In the Dred Scott v. Sanford decision, likely the worst decision ever, the Supreme Court ignored the overwhelmingly clear mandate of the Constitution in favor of a desired outcome. In writing his dissent to this despicable example of judicial tyranny, Justice Benjamin R. Curtis wrote, “When a strict interpretation of the Constitution, according to the fixed rules which govern the interpretation of laws, is abandoned, and the theoretical opinions of individuals are allowed to control its meaning, we no longer have a Constitution; we are under the government of individual men, who for the time being have power to declare what the Constitution is according to their own views of what it ought to mean” (Dred Scott 60 U.S. 621 (Curtis, J., dissenting)).