The U.S. Supreme Court is seemingly under fire right now from every political direction. Is anybody willing to say even just one kind word for the Supreme Court as it is currently constituted? You might even say that Kagan is now trying to warn those critics to chill out before their approach begins to backfire. Why shouldn't progressives use whatever national political power they manage to obtain to fundamentally transform the Court?" Kagan may oppose that kind of partisan move against the Supreme Court for the same reasons why her recently retired liberal colleague Stephen Breyer opposed it.