Sandra Day O'Connor warns us of what we should already know: We are seeing the embryonic formation of american dictatorship; forewarned is forearmed:

I, said O’Connor, am against judicial reforms driven by nakedly partisan reasoning. Pointing to the experiences of developing countries and former communist countries where interference with an independent judiciary has allowed dictatorship to flourish, O’Connor said we must be ever-vigilant against those who would strongarm the judiciary into adopting their preferred policies. It takes a lot of degeneration before a country falls into dictatorship, she said, but we should avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings.

Per NPR and Keith Olberman at MSNBC, and The Raw Story.