arena, and what's happening today is really the end of about a 65 year struggle that started when conservatives began to be disenchanted with dwight eisenhower's appointments to the supreme court, they were disenchanted with richard nixon, and george h.w. bush, and there was a pact on the right they would never be fooled again, kind of a scarlet o'hare principle. they would never fall for putting someone on the court not i d ideologically pure. the court is as political as any other branch of government. >> that's something that, chris hayes, many were hoping wasn't the case. they looked to the supreme court in a way most average americans haven't considered the supreme court outside of the biggest