[fiscally_right]

If there were popular outrage enough against the decisions of the court, then the congress could impeach them. There certainly is not enough support to change the entire process if there isn't support to impeach the offending judges in the recent cases.

[xzins]

There isn't the political will or desire to do anything. The result is a 9 person black-robed oligarchy running America.

Given that, one wonders the best solution never to have it happen again. That is an elected judiciary.

[RobbyS]

What has taken hold is the doctrine of judicial supremacy, which is confused with the idea of the supremacy of law.
Increasingly the courts are dominated by the legal class, which means that juries are not employed or they are robbed of their power. The O.J. Trial is the only recent one I can think of where a jury exercised the power that the common law tradition confered on it to say what the opinion of the community was. The judges reflect only the opinion of the elite in our society, and our elite every day becomes every more radical in their rejection of traditional values.