He does sound scared. And there will be more flack next week when they release the Ten Commandments case. It's going to get worse for the judges. I hope they all retire.
"Justice for life" isn't a good idea. Most of these guys (and gals) serve so long they begin to suffer dementia and have delusions of grandeur.
They are scared - they know they just kicked a great big hornet's nest with the Kelo vs. New London decision, after tapping at it and riling it up for many, many years. They've already got "legal experts" all over the media poo-pooing the reaction of us peons, declaring in the most condescending tones that the "big bad government isn't coming to take your house." The media spin machine is in hyperdrive on this one, and this is simply a pre-emptive strike, telling us fools to just shut up and meekly accept the rulings of your black-robed gods.
I don't think it's going to work this time. When you start talking about taking away a person's home, you're going to get noticed quickly. And there are a couple of other major decisions coming next week, one of which will probably mean that, if this court continues with it's string of recent rulings, I just committed a felony a few minutes ago when I ripped a couple of CDs to my computer so I could load the songs on my iPod. The other decision will most likely ban any kind of display of the Ten Commandments, be it on public or private land. If Kennedy thinks it's hot now, he should wait a few days to see what hot really means.
He should be scared.