Thank you for those links.
Just a general rambling thought from a can't-quit-tossing-and-turning-and-get-some-sleep mind (so forgive me if it doesn't make a lot of sense):
I've been puzzled for a long time--and no more so than today--as to why the executive and legislative branches are letting the judicial branch run away with the power. The thought struck me moments ago that it may be as simple as those branches being filled with attorneys. I've been shocked by lawyers on local TV and even a couple on here who have been supportive of the idea that what the courts say, goes.
I fear we may be at a point that by and large those in the legal profession give it their first allegiance and have been trained into a mindset that a de facto judicial oligarchy is considered right and just and necessary. A new elite, if you will, that truly doesn't trust the people with power.
(I seem to recall that Scalia may have given a speech along these lines, too. I'll have to look for it.)