Who died and made Pat Buchanan a legal expert?

Pat Buchanan tries to critique the Court, and in particular Justice Stevens, in this *brilliantly* crafted critique.

The Faustian bargain these justices are offered is favorable media, comparisons to great liberal jurists of yesterday like Louis Brandeis and Hugo Black, and repeated references to how they have "evolved," and "grown," and are being accorded a strange "new respect."
When they accept such media favors, these justices, nominated by Republican presidents to restore constitutionalism to the court, begin to receive ovations at establishment dinners and turn up on the most desirable party lists. Where once they were the "clones of Scalia," suddenly, they are jurists of "independent thought."

Yes Pat, its because of the popular media attention and the party invitations they receive that they find the death penalty abhorrent to democratic principles and in violation of the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. Or, it could be that we're the only industrialized country in the world, one of two if you deign to include China, that still executes it's own people. But Pat is probably right, they probably made a "Faustian" bargain for caviar and foie gras.