While I agree with you on your various points. Currently it is what we are stuck with, and wouldn't this kinda fall into that role.
Police abusing their authority. Wouldn't SCOTUS be a way to reign that in.

@Kheare, The way to reign every criminal in is by doing so in every single case, every single time, every single place, starting with the worst cases first, all within the limited ability we humans have at our disposal. Why is it "what we are stuck with," to accept the position you appear to accept? This position you appear to accept is a very small number of people at the top of a pyramid scheme who have exclusive power to judge who, what, when, where, and how a crime becomes a crime, and that is a crime called tyranny. They claim to have the power to judge if one of their own, including themselves, is guilty of anything, anywhere, anytime. Do they confess, fine themselves, torture themselves for confession, and then voluntarily walk into one of their Nodes in their Gulag for their preferred form of Punishment for this tyranny they perpetrate? No, then throw a few of their own in the meat grinder they call "justice," to quiet the plebes when the slaves grow restless.

They (at the top) are routinely guilty of capital crimes including treason in every single example of infringement upon individual rights, as suggested in statutes like The Bill of Rights on the National Level (counterfeit federal level) and in many State (actual Nations) Constitutions (statutes).

In actual lawful due process - on the historical record - you or I, and anyone else can reach out to our local magistrates (justices of the peace, who work for free and have no bias toward "government" ) and accuse anyone in or out of government office of any serious crime including the treasonous crimes perpetrated routinely at the top of the pyramid scheme. Our lawful justices are then charged with the duty to assemble a grand jury (having all legal jurisdiction) to investigate our accusations. If the facts uncovered by the justices indicate a cause to act in defense of the public at large, then that is where, and how, the people CHECK the worst abusers of government power. The people put on trial those who earn the ire of the people, and the trial is before the country: a jury. The trial is not a judgment made by the accused, or the members of the gang who are biased toward other members of their gang: the so-called government which is counterfeit does not judge for itself in actual truth-based law.

If the government (so-called) can't keep treasonous criminals out of the top spots in their organized crime ring, then why would their victims ever hatch this idea that the same criminals are going to police their lower ranks with anything close to just efficiency? Here they say, this is what you are stuck with, we judge for ourselves, and we choose not to find ourselves guilty of anything, and we judge for you too, and if you don't obey on command we will torture you, your family, until you do obey, or you are dead.

Whose idea is it to sweep the bottom step first, to go after minor infractions by police who are "just obeying orders," from the top?