Although the Supreme Court is the most powerful of the three branches; the secrete they fear getting out is that they are as impotent as the Wizard of Oz.
Some great scholar once said: "The Executive Branch has the military, the Legislative Branch has the purse strings, and the Judicial Branch has magic."
I am awaiting a flurry of decisions next week....on major issues like file sharing and the Ten Commandments.
The court is waiting until the very last second as usual to issue the only rulings that really matter. They issue a lot of rulings the rest of the year, but very few matter at the end of the day. But, those will.
To borrow from Stalin - they don't have any "divisions". If enough of us do it or refuse to do it - whatever "it" is in a specific case - there is no way they can enforce it.
They can insist the schools throw kids out of school for praying before a ballgame. But it's the schools who will have to deal with the loss of funding from the reduced headcount - and face fan pressure - no pressure like that from a frustrated HS booster. If you were a local school board/administration which would you respond to?
It's easy to hand down rulings you don't have to enforce. Maybe they would like to have to guarantee that the prisoners released from Gitmo won't go on to kill more Americans?
The judiciary better start thinking before they continue farther down the road of assinine fiats. There will be a last straw and then they will lose most of their power when We the People finally realize we don't have to cater to their nonsense. We never did but as long as they were half way reasonable we went along with it.