Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court eventually weighs in, and nine lawyers in robes become oracles of our national identity.

We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony.

The Supreme Court has ignored our Constitution.

Not every lawyer gets to the Supreme Court frequently, and some lawyers never get there.

To hear both critics and defenders talk about the fitness of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, you'd think the most successful Supreme Court justices had been warm, collegial consensus-builders. But history tells a different story.

The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible.