In his First Monday Musings column on Above the Law, Dean Vikram Amar speaks about where the Supreme Court is and where it may be going from the perspective of someone who has studied the Justices and their craft for 30 years.
"So whether one has a conservative or liberal judicial outlook, and even if one is focusing only on issues we know will come before the Court (to say nothing of the issues we can’t yet foresee), the Court that begins its Term today will likely go down in history as the last Court that existed prior to the reshaping likely to be done by the next president."
Full column at Above the Law