But the job of courts in a pluralistic democracy isn't to please their base. It's to work to resolve conflicts, to ratchet them down rather than up. Courts should be reminding us of what we have in common. They should be granting just enough constitutional leverage on each side that we have no choice but to sit across from each other at the table, to look each other in the eye, and to speak to and hear each other. Too often, U.S. courts instead see their job in constitutional cases as declaring who's right. The answer, so often, is neither side -- or both.