[ernie]

The saving grace for the supreme court right now is Chief Justice Roberts seems to make he takes the center stance and puts it on his shoulders to balance ideologies. I suspect he will continue to play that role.

In general, the justices move to the liberal side of things..some measures have Kennedy crossing over to leaning liberal in the past couple years for instance. Hell even Scalia was moving ever so slightly closer to a liberal stance (though he was still very very very much conservative leaning in his votes).