Yeah, the check on the legislature for this kind of thing isn't the courts but the Constitution. Maybe we'll see an amendment in our lifetime.

I don't think an amendment would be necessary. Congress has the power to do so without it.

Correct, but with an amendment, Congress couldn't change its mind later.

Why would the legislatures that gerrymandered themselves in amend the constitution to ban this practice?

Waiting for a constitutional amendment on anything in this century is like waiting for Santa Claus. He's not coming.

What you’re saying is true, but it’s not exactly the end of the story in our post Roe world. SCOTUS has proven they are willing to completely reverse their decisions absent a change in fact or law. If nothing changes except the partisan makeup of the court, then their decisions look partisan when they are reversed.

So when SCOTUS says they are bound by the law and Constitution to not make certain decisions, a lot of people now rightly ask: are they really? Because it seems that they can move with great alacrity to twist the law when it suits the political aims of their party.