 the whole world depends on them, because in a way they kind of do. And it was never intended to be that way. The Supreme Court was just supposed to be settling a very narrow set of cases. Go back and read your Constitution. Article 3 has the explanation of the judiciary and the U.S. Supreme Court. They're not supposed to be a judicial oligarchy that decide all the important questions in our society. That's what we have a Congress for, that is elected by the American people.