There is something very wrong when the basis of a society's most fundamental legal institutions, such as the Supreme Court, is so blatantly open to partisan political appointments.

How can anyone defend the Supreme Court as an impartial institution, and the system of justice as based on fair and competent judges, when the supreme court in the land can swing wildly from one extreme to the other based on which party does the appointing? And that this appointment will have profound repercussions for decades?

In such a divided society, no wonder everyone goes nuts over this.