"And unfortunately, while we may not -like- a lot of the decisions coming out of there lately, they are by and large legally sound (granted: they are lawyers, so they're good at rationalizing most anything)."
With a lot of the recent decisions it seems the law really has little to do with it. If it was just based on law there wouldn't be so many 5 to 4 decisions. Most decisions would be 9 to 0. Which means the laws are not written well which then means they are not good laws to begin with and the court should either refuse to hear most cases or excuse themselves from the decision because there isn't enought "meat" in the current law to make a valid decision.