Per the Constitution, Congress can decimate the entire federal court system and severely limit its jurisdiction by a simple majority.
Almost true. They can dictate the jurisdiction of any federal court inferior to the Supreme Court. Indeed, they do exactly that with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
The Supreme Court, however, has originial jurisdiction over any matter arising from federal law or the Constitution, and nothing Congress can do short of a Constitutional Amendment can change that.
This article, quite frankly, sounds like a pipe dream dreamt up by someone with only enough knowledge of Constitutional law to be dangerous. There is no way a talismanic disclaimer at the end of a law could prevent the Supreme Court from reviewing it, especially from questions arising from the Constitution itself.
In order to allow this proposal to pass, we'd have to chuck the entire concept of judicial review from Marbury v. Madison. And that would require a Constitutional Amendment itself.
In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.Congress has no similar grant of authority to regulate the original jurisdiction of whatever inferior courts have been established.
"Per the Constitution, Congress can decimate the entire federal court system and severely limit its jurisdiction by a simple majority."
Now we all know what to tell Santa we want for Christmas.
"decimate the entire federal court system" Prayers being sent up.