Yes, unopposed power will corrupt absolutely. Scotus and even lower federal courts are corrupt thanks to a congress neutered by the 17th Amendment.
I have no problem w/Judicial Review. The Framers spoke of it at the Federal Convention and I recently ran across reference to it from a Madison speech to the House on June 17, 1789:
“I acknowledge, in the ordinary course of government, that the exposition of the laws and Constitution devolves upon the judicial. But, I beg to know upon what principle it can be contended, that any one department draws from the Constitution greater powers than another, in marking out the limits of the powers of the several departments.”
Until 1913, the states protected themselves and their people from judicial oligarchy. The 17th Amendment so much as repealed the 10th.
There can never be sufficient will in a popularly elected congress to utilize its enormous Article III and impeachment power against tyrannical judges.
My suggestion, which I hammer at my blog, is to repeal the awful 17th Amendment, which can only happen through an Article V Convention of the States.
Thanks