Articles flying like angry bats around the Right Wing press are calling for the wholesale replacement of from five to as many as eight of the sitting justices of the Supreme Court, because, well, they don't agree with them. Who are the "safe" justices they would preserve? Predictably, they are Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and, of course, the always charming Anton Scalia.
Try as I might, I can't recall any comparable grousing from the Right when the Court handed down its dubious Citizens United and McCutcheon decisions, among several notable others. This time, reaction seems to be more that of "shoot the messenger(s)" in response to social changes that conservatives/reactionaries can't accept. Not unlike Social Security checks and Medicare subsidies, such changes feel better in the hand than in the mind, and everyone's ultimately better off.
But Scalia as poster boy for an ideal court? Really? I'm a proud, thoughtful, and long-time liberal, and perhaps it's my Libran sense of fairness shoeing through, but I don't share the Right Wing's painfully obvious need for The Fix to be in before every SCOTUS decision. In fact, I'd gladly roll the judicial dice with a high court comprised of nine Anthony Kennedys. Maybe that's a hallmark of a liberal.
Perhaps it's just time to take a step back and recognize that a very long pendulum continues to swing, just as it has for nearly 250 years.