It would be nice to have some mechanism to force the various branches of government to pass laws that oppose their own collective self-interests but advance the interests of the populace.

I mean, it is a country of laws. Just...some of those laws are pretty bad. For what it's worth, the Court in this case is narrowly focused on correcting a lower court's interpretation of the Copyright Act, not something in the Constitution or something fundamental, and on a first glance, I at least feel that their conclusion is highly justifiable. That doesn't mean the Copyright Act isn't fundamentally broken (it is, on my opinion), but that's trivially fixable by Congress if we get appropriately minded representatives.

Minority rule by design (or originalists), a perspective: https://www.npr.org/2024/04/22/1246297603/ari-berman-minorit...