The Supreme Court as handmaiden to unlimited presidential power is not a pretty picture for a nation founded on ideals that included the rule of law, separation of powers, checks and balances, a constitutionally constrained executive, legislative dominance and the power of judicial review, which the founders believed, would be exercised to superintendent the boundaries of governmental authority, and which were enthusiastically embraced and ratified by the American people.

What makes this sordid behavior of the Court even more galling, beyond the fact that it is voluntary, is the fact that it represents an affront to the principles and purposes for which it was created and expected to serve, and rests on an insupportable historical thesis entirely devoid of evidence. It also reflects a gla

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