I'm not sure how much "prestige" George Will thinks the Supreme Court has when there are recent polls showing more than half the country believes "the justices are swayed by their own political beliefs" and less than a third believe they they “make impartial decisions based on their reading of the Constitution.”

Given the conflicts of interests with Scalia and Thomas, I would say the only reason the public does not have a lower opinion of the court lands squarely on the laps of people like George Will and the rest of our corporate media for not doing a better job of covering and bringing attention to the problems with those two justices.

And I find it laughable that anyone would believe that the Supreme Court injecting itself into a presidential campaign did not do damage to the "prestige" of that institution, but that's the line Will was pushing during his appearance on This Week, where we're unfortunate enough to have him as an almost permanent fixture in their panel segments.