[anonymouskimmer]

> Only someone who was confident in his faction's ability to control Congress forever would hamstring the Supreme Court.

I don't quite understand what you're saying here. Especially in light that it takes a supermajority of the Senate to remove someone from the court, not just control of the Senate.

> that one pays to make certain that there are some speed bumps in the way of the House and Senate if they ever got too far out of whack.

Direct election of members of congress is the better speedbump.