BILL STUNTZ on Lewis Powell and Sandra Day O’Connor:

One more similarity is worth noting, and it’s one that should give pause in the midst of all the praise. If Powell and O’Connor had a single defining characteristic as judges, it was this: Both were very comfortable–too much so–exercising power.

As with all of Stuntz’s pieces, read the whole thing. I think, however, that the problem with the Supreme Court is that it hasn’t exercised enough power, relative to the Courts of Appeals, anyway.