Had this decision been made 45 years after the 14th Amendment (1913) rather than today, do you think the Senate would not be in consultation with the House to kick the asses of those five justices off the Supreme Court?
Today, the Senate stands in awe of what MSNBC, Politico, WaPo, NYT and especially Obama. . . etc. say of it.
Had we elected people who stood on principle, the Supreme Court would surely not have the makeup it has today, rendering the rest of your argument moot.
I am in full agreement that we have a Supreme Court who, as I said earlier today, yesterday thought it could write law and today thinks it can play God.