New York Times: Supreme Court 'declining in relevance'

The number of cases the court decided with signed opinions last term, 69, was the lowest since 1953 and fewer than half the number the court was deciding as recently as the mid-1980s. And aside from the school integration and global warming cases the court heard last week, along with the terrorism-related cases of the last few years, relatively few of the cases the court is deciding nowadays speak to the core of the country's concerns.

Dawg and tranzport i am sure have some thoughts on this, eh?