The nation's highest court has a huge impact on Americans.
It desegregated schools, legalized abortion, and upended campaign finance reform.
That court even decided a presidential election in 2000, but Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are hardly talking about it during their dead-heat race.
So, why are both candidates ignoring the most important judges in America?
The Atlantic's Garret Epps offered one explanation last month.
Obama doesn't talk about the court because he wants the president and Congress to have more power than the justices.
And Romney has basically nothing to gain from talking about the Supreme Court, Epps said.
Romney can't extol the virtues of John Roberts -- whose Obamacare ruling infuriated conservatives -- nor can he alienate women by mentioning future nominees who would destroy Roe v. Wade.
Still, the Supreme Court played a pretty big role in the Republican primary.
Outspoken presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich even issued a 28-eight page screed saying he'd curb the power of the nation's highest court, The New York Times' Linda Greenhouse pointed out Wednesday.
But Greenhouse says the Supreme Court became more politicized in the minds of most Americans when it issued its June health care ruling, which came after most of the Republican primaries.
After the court upheld most of the Affordable Care Act, Democrats viewed the justices much more favorably than they had before the ruling. The Obamacare ruling had the opposite effect on Republicans, Greenhouse reported, citing a study to be published next year.
"In the face of such polarization, political strategists might well question whether talking about the Supreme Court, with all its inherent risks, is worth the candidates' time," Greenhouse wrote.
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