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Originally posted by Sacamuelas
The legislature can ammend the constitution and overrule the SCOTUS decisions. 
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No, it can't.
Congress can propose amendments, but it takes a supermajority of 2/3rds of both the House and Senate. States can call a convention to propose amendments, but again, it takes 2/3rds of state legislatures to do so. Once an amendment is properly proposed, it must be ratified by 3/4ths of the states. Then an amendment becomes a part of the Constitution. Ten amendments were adopted on December 15, 1791, having been passed by Congress and proposed to the States in 1789. Since then, 17 more amendments have been added (one of which repealed an earlier amendment).
The last one added was in 1992. This last one was actually one of those approved by Congress in 1789. While the first ten amendments took 2 years to get ratified by 3/4ths of the states, this one took over 202 years.