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The courts are expected to be above politics.  That is the only reason why these justices are appointed to a LIFETIME position - they never have to pander to a party or public opinion.  Their ONLY job is to make constitutional ruling.

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Theoretically, that's true.

In practice, both parties put up candidates for the federal bench who interpret the Constitution through the ideological prism of their party.  As the Democratic Party has moved farther to the right over the past 35 years in order to both grow the party (by attracting Republicans and Independents into the party) and compete for corporate dollars, its nominees are ever more corporate-friendly/anti-populist.

Alito, Roberts, and Thomas made it through a Democratically-controlled Judiciary Committee and Senate.  And Democrats voted to confirm Thomas (52-48), Alito (58-42) and Roberts (78-22) and Scalia (98-0).  There is nothing that Bush-Cheney, and Reagan-Bush for that matter, did that Democrats couldn't have blocked.  Democrats signed on to all of it.

The real problem we're facing is a president and a Democratic­ Party that, for whatever reason (naivete or a convenient cover for their own corruption­), stubbornly clings to the 'bipartisa­nship model' ("Can't we all get along?") style of legislatin­g and governing that hasn't worked for decades, if ever.  I don't know how many ways Republican­s can say "Go fuck yourselves­" before Obama and Democrats play to win -- Probably as long as there are people who give Obama and Democrats a pass.

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