[El Gato]

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer said Tuesday that rulings on difficult subjects like gay rights and the death penalty have left courts vulnerable to political attacks that are threatening judicial independence. Breyer urged lawyers to help educate people about court responsibility to be an independent decision-maker

There would be no problem if they stuck to the wording and original meaning of the Constitution, the U.S. Constitution that is.

[hoosierham]

Judicial independence as though they should never be bothered by the real-world effects of their asinine rulings is something that shouldn't exist.

I wish the founders had included term or gov't service limits such that no one could spend his whole life in the gov't. And they ought to have fixed the terms of judges at a lengthy but ,finite, term,say, 14 years in office then back to the real world.