By James Marino (August 28, 2017, 5:51 PM EDT) -- The public is often baffled by the cases that the U.S. Supreme Court decides to hear out of the hundreds presented yearly. So are many lawyers and legal scholars. This term, for example, the question of who a baker must bake a cake for has arisen to the level of constitutional importance. On the other hand, the relatively unknown case of Patchak v. Zinke gets none of the notoriety in the media or the public eye, yet it is probably one of the more important cases that have been decided by the court since Marbury v. Madison defined the parameters of the three branches of our government over 210 years ago. That landmark decision established the law of the land, making clear the critical need for maintaining the system of checks and balances and separation of powers between the executive, legislative and judicial branches, as well as the rights and protections for the people of the United States for whom the Constitution was written....