Is 2/3rds of Congress honest, principled, loyal to the Constitution and dedicated to the welfare of the people? I trust them less than the Supreme Court.
The problem with the Supreme Court is it's the Supreme Court. Once they rule specifically on something that's the final word. Their rulings can only be overturned by the Supreme Court. State or federal laws won't work at protecting property rights from local officials or developers now. Laws which are on the books are only good until a corrupt local board and developer challenge any limitation by going ahead and doing what the Supreme Court said they could do in Kelo vs. New London.
Corrupt local boards will just go ahead and take property under the 'public good' presumption. If they're taken to court the case just has to be appealed to the federal. Once in federal court any state or federal law limiting a government-sponsored property seizure will be stuck down via Kelo vs. New London. Two dissenters in that case even specified that Emminent Domain would be used for corporate and politically-connected enrichment at others' expense. I.e., the court has already signed-off to eggregious corruption associated with the ruling.
"Is 2/3rds of Congress honest, principled, loyal to the Constitution and dedicated to the welfare of the people?"
No. But they are elected and in some degree responsible for their actions. If we wanted nine Kings, the Founding Fathers would have created them.
Face it. The system isn't working. The Supreme Court was supposed to look at the Constitution and look at a proposed law and determine if that law was in conflict with the Constitution.
This collection of clowns does nothing of the sort. They use the Constitution as a general guideline and then make up everything else as they go along. And this pattern isn't new - but its escalalting.
To answer your question - I don't trust anyopne in power. But I trust someone who is answerable to no one and appointed for life least - especialy when they have the kind of power-grabbing track record the intemperate Supreme Court does.
"The problem with the Supreme Court is it's the Supreme Court. Once they rule specifically on something that's the final word."
The problem with that premise is we then no longer have three co-equal branches of government. We have two subordinate branches of government and one superior branch which is not what the founding fathers intended.
And this is all fine and good with many of our Congressmen. It takes them off the hook to have a judicially active court system. They can evade making hard decisions on major issues of policy and leave it to the untouchables on the SCOTUS. In that manner they secure their sinecures to what was never intended to be a permanent job by aggrevating no one.
Suppose all nine justices becamne senile. Then what? Can they be removed? No. They can't be touched for making assinine decisions like this recent one, only for commiting a crime and unfortunately being stupid or demented isn't a crime.