The "independence of the judiciary" is the overarching scam-component of the great fraud the lawyer-monopoly-mob has pulled off in stealing our former country. In the following bold type is what the mob doesn't want you to know is in the REAL Constitution, Article3: "In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.
I hope you can read that okay. There is NO "independence of the judiciary." Congress holds all the REGULATORY cards. That bold type covers >99.9% of Sup Ct cases. I'm ballparking/guessing this by assuming they get 8000 cases a year (that aren't stopped in the clerk's office, sometimes wrongly). And maybe they get several of the "Original Jurisdiction" cases (the first part of the above quotation), such as when New Hampshire sued Maine—cases that are filed directly in the Sup Ct. Those few cases don't have the mainline "sweeping effect" on regular people throughout the US, assuming they even affect more than a handful of people.
Roe v. Wade and all the other such cases about which people "hit the streets," go up to the Sup Ct by APPEAL under its APPELLATE JURISDICTION, over which Congress has full REGULATORY authority. That's the clean BIG secret to flushing the fetid-cesspool courts (the dirty BIG secret), which the lawyers don't want you to know about. But Congress, stuffed with lawyers and their lackeys (Grassley, a principal lackey), won't touch the courts. McConnell (chief of the fake-opposition party) recently said, "leave the Sup Ct alone," which encapsulates how our former country has been stolen: there is no actual opposition ("conservative" or whatever) to judges doing WhtevrTF they want.
And regardless of what the Sup Ct says, a very large percentage of judges, both federal and State, give the middle finger to Sup Ct decisions, or they don't understand them—as with the Feldman BOTCH rule, which began the 40-year crippling of our (former) Bill of Rights and has all but killed due process and property rights. Judges do this because they are unaccountable. Congress (and legislatures) can and must hold them accountable by impeaching early and removing often. Will they? Not a chance under the current brainwashing and brainwashed bunch.
The Feldman BOTCH is the perfect place to start. Congress has full authority to pass a bill (it's called a LAW, ya know) and let the corrupt-moron judges know what the LAW is (because they don't), in simple, direct, objective terms (that 10th-grade math students know, who pay attention and aren't skipping math for debate club and student council, and dreaming about law school and then Congress) with no Accordingly-Moreover-Indeed lawyer mumbo-jumbo. The Boolean expression for the Correct Feldman Rule is ~ST ⇒ Ft ; if you haven't gotten a final decision from a State's Top (supreme) court, ST , then you can file in federal trial court, Ft , to challenge any State lower-court decision (or a bunch of them). This is what the 14th Amendment (and the associated 1871 civil rights act) allows, and what the Civil War was fought for, BTW: "It is clear from the legislative debates surrounding passage of § 1983's predecessor that the Act was intended to enforce the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment "against State action, . . . whether that action be executive, legislative, OR JUDICIAL," quoting the 1880 Sup Ct (EMPHASIS SUPPLIED in 1972)" In 1880, the Sup Ct wrote:
And because state and federal courts basically decide what the Executive Branch can do—and courts can negate laws passed by Congress and legislatures—the Feldman BOTCH let State judges and govts run wild: