Fear of losing SCOTUS gave us eight years of RINO GWB which has doomed us for possibly a century.
BTW, there are three branches of government. If the executive branch and the legislative branch were doing their job then the judicial branch would have much less of an effect.
About the only good thing that GWB did was appoint a few good justices, but that doesn't make up for No Child Left Behind, TARP, Department of Homeland Security, Medicare Part D, etc.