It has always been my belief that the general consensus is that the judges ignore the law when it does not fit their ideology. This is what I refer to when saying that changing the law would not necessarily rein them in. Take the abortion issue and the laws passed by Congress to control it only to have the courts toss those laws.
I agree that we are in a time of imperial judiciary. Congress has the power of impeachment too.
AFAIK, all the laws tossed by SCOTUS, regarding abortion, have been state laws. That's the major point of the dissents in Roe, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, etc. That a court is taking on a legislative function, on an issue that is contentious to the public. Once judicially determined, the public debate is inflamed with no place left to settle it, short of Constitutional amendment.