[Modernman]

Part of the problem is that few people have ever actually read a SCOTUS decision. They're normally wide-ranging intellectual discussions that include passages on history, politics and societal trends in addition to actual case law.

It's easy for people to get excited about one passage taken out of context of a 25 page decision, I guess.

[JCEccles]

They're normally wide-ranging intellectual discussions

They are a CLOSED debate of nine souls on matters of utmost importance and urgency that affect 280 million citizens, a closed debate society whose decisions typically bind those 280 million citizens not for mere months or even years, but for generations.