Concentrated power inevitably leads to political backlash
During almost every Supreme Court nomination battle, I try to make the same point: These fights wouldn't be nearly so ugly if we didn't invest so much power in the Supreme Court it shouldn't have in the first place.
Until the Robert Bork nomination in 1987, Supreme Court fights were remarkably staid affairs. But by the late '80s, the court had become a bulwark for all sorts of policies and laws that should rightly be
