I agree that many judges, including some Supreme Court justices, are corrupt to the core, and I also realize that Congress is too gutless to do anything about them. But I believe that things are improving thanks to our Republican President. Bush is making a lot of very good nominations and getting them confirmed.
That is about the only thing I will grant Bush these days. The rest of what has gone on in Washington DC is a giant steaming pile no matter how you slice it.
Clarence Thomas is the model justice IMO, and we would do very well to have many more like him. Fortunately, Roberts and Alito are at least in the ballpark. While I know many Republicans like Scalia, he has a weakness for legislating arbitrary morality from the bench that I do not like. Scalia is conservative, but Thomas actually seems to grok the original intent of the Founding Fathers, something I appreciate intensely these days. Scalia can get "creative" with his interpretation of the Constitution when an issue runs against his personal beliefs, damn the consequences to precedent.