[Buckeye McFrog]

If they wanted to, Congress tomorrow could limit the Supreme Court's jurisdiction to hearing parking ticket appeals from Bergen County, New Jersey. In my opinion, it's worth a try.

[normy]

The problem is that the House of Representatives seems to act as if it has no say in anything. The leaders of the House need to start smacking down the Senate and the Courts.

[steve-b]

Ah, somebody else who hasn't read the text of the Constitution.

Congress can delimit the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. This would make the highest court that did hear the case the last word.

Congress can delimit either the original or appellate jurisdiction of lesser federal courts (not explicitly stated, but implicit in the fact that such lesser courts are the creatures of Congress).

Congress may not transfer the original jurisdiction of certain types of cases (none of which are relevant here) from the Supreme Court to a lesser federal court.

None of this enables Congress to remove original jurisdiction of any case from the federal judiciary as a whole (fortunately -- if they could, the liberals would have long ago passed a law saying, 1)Hand In Your Guns, 2)No, You Can't Appeal Item 1 In Court, and 3)NYAH NYAH NYAH).

[Verginius Rufus]

Don't put it past the Supreme Court to use a parking ticket appeal to mandate reparations or same-sex marriage.