To cover the Supreme Court these days is to catalogue its lawlessness. The conservative justices’ latest decision in McMahon v. New York allows the president to effectively demolish the Department of Education—a Cabinet-level department that was created by Congress,

Though the justices are well within their rights to offer little to no explanation for emergency rulings through their “ shadow docket ,” they’ve begun issuing far more decisions this way in recent years,

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When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and then executes on that promise, it is the Judiciary’s duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it.”That’s how Justice Sonia Sotomayor phrased it in her dissent Tuesday,