Supreme Court Justices Own Words on Health-Care Law

As the public perceives the U.S. Supreme Court as being more politicized, the question of which president gets to replace the next justice becomes more important. Supreme Court justices can only be replaced if they retire, die, or are impeached.

During Supreme Court arguments last week over California's gay marriage ban, several justices suggested the case never should have come before the court in the first place.

At least five and perhaps as many as eight of the nine members of the U.S. Supreme Court are millionaires according to recently released financial disclosures, and only two hold any consumer debt. Assets on the forms are reported in a range making it impossible to say precisely how much each justice is worth, but suffice it to say, none of them are hurting financially.

Conservative Supreme Court justices said they were troubled by the Obama administration tiptoeing around the federal Defense of Marriage Act during oral arguments Wednesday morning at the high court.