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But the Supreme Court does not make sweeping changes in constitutional law by accident, or by its own design. Rather, the Court is limited to deciding the cases that the parties ask the Court to decide.

The Founding Fathers provided a way to reverse unpopular Supreme Court decisions: a constitutional amendment.

The American people should be the one to decide which direction the Supreme Court will go.

I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.

The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.

The Supreme Court has a very light backlog. They leave a lot of splits among the circuits, a lot of uncertainty. And I think they ought to work a lot harder.

The Supreme Court is not the impetus for constitutional change - we are.

If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion.

In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.