The courts were originally intended to be the weakest branch of government.  The founders intended the Congress to be the strongest branch of government.

That situation is reversed today.  We are at the point where we can't get anything accomplished without judicial fiat.  The courts have become the most powerful branch of government.  Liberals praise democracy--until it gives them a non-liberal result.  All of a sudden they love monarchy then.  The courts were not set up to give liberals what they could not get through the democratic process.  Yet that is exactly what they have become.

Why do you think the issue of the SCOTUS now figures so predominately in elections?  Why do you think both parties fight so tenaciously over the nominations?  Because in the end, there is little power to check the courts.  The only thing we can do to check the courts is a Constitutional amendment.  Those are near impossible.