reporting shows up. you know, our finest hours as a country have come in some ways because of the supreme court and some of our worst. you know, this is an institution that gave us dred scott and plessy and brown versus board of education. i think as you know well the focus on the right side of politics, the conservative side of politics on the court, particularly since eisenhower appointed chief justice warren, you have seen its fruition in the graphic you just showed, the intense view that judgeships matter. it is pretty clear to me that in the popular imagination these judgeships, not just the supreme court, they ve always been hugely important but they took on this particular ideological significance really after the criminal justice decisions, the