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yeah, it turns out unelected, lifetime appointees with the power to interpret the law with no oversight was a bad idea.
Technically, Congress can impeach supreme court justices, but that depends on Congress being functional, which it hasn't been for a long time.
impeachment in US governance has always been a joke and a partisan cudgel used or withheld on the whims of whoever happens to be in power, with some notable exceptions.
Case in point: the only Supreme Court Justice to be impeached was reinstated because the proceedings, instigated by then-president Jefferson, was very unambiguously politically motivated.