What was that about the rule of law, rather than the rule of men?

The latest TIME devotes 10 of its 64 pages to a profile of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. Why?

It is easy to forget that there is still a wide range of issues before the Justices–dull but important matters like pension-fund law, for example–that can be resolved amicably, without need for Kennedy’s deciding vote. But on most cases of great moment, the intellectual battlefield of the Supreme Court has shrunk to the space between this one man’s ears.

And since the fate of much of the federal government’s agenda sits in the Supreme Court’s hands, that’s some pretty important head space. Can you hear the Founders spinning in their graves?