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The reason the court seeks input from the executive branch on core constitutional issues is because it is the branch of government that crafts the regulations to implement these laws and uses its considerable power to enforce them. Affirmative action is a practice started by the executive branch, and now has spread throughout academia and the workplace. It's simply inhumane to treat people as statistics and not as individual citizens who have constitutional rights to be treated as individuals. As for the court following the public's lead, that's what Congress is supposed to do. The court is supposed to follow the law, and leave the public influence to the elected branches. A court that is influenced by public opinion ceases to become a tool of justice.

"The court is supposed to follow the law, and leave the public influence to the elected branches. A court that is influenced by public opinion ceases to become a tool of justice. "

That's what had happened- by the appointment of judges who would support AA.

It will be undone the same way IMHO.

"The reason the court seeks imput from the executive branch....."

The Justice Dept was not invited to file a brief in this case by SCOTUS, but acted on its own under the president's orders.

If imput from Bush was so important why wasn't he invited to file a brief?