Is the Supreme Court too political and too powerful?

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - Region: USA, grade: 84%, Birkbeck, University of London (University of London), course: American Politics, language: English, abstract: The US Supreme Court bears the incredible responsibility for deciding the constitutional validity of cases by judging the merits of each against the Constitution. Given the context in which the Constitutio...