Supreme Court's Global Influence Fading

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

This group of hacks had a pretty big influence on who became the 43rd President of the United States.

First of all, only 7 of the 9 Justices still on the Court voted on Bush v. Gore.  Second of all, except for Thomas, none of the members of the Court in 2000, or in 2008, are hacks.  They are all extremely qualified for their positions.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The US Supreme Court had a global influence once?

Sorry, but that's news to me.
The US Supreme Court, with its strange dual role as highest court in the appeals chain and special constitutional court, is an archaic relic that is at least sixty years past its due date.

This is a valid point. The USSC is unlike any other court in the world in this sense.