Lately I’ve been joking about a vast right-wing conspiracy to shore up the power of the new Supreme Court. Conservative lawyers across the country have filed a series of legal claims with a very particular set of skills: These cases ask courts to step in to advance conservative political goals, they seek to achieve such big victories this way that they drive the Left insane with panic . . . and they are incredibly weak legally.
The goal can’t possibly be for these efforts to win in court, no matter how many Federalist Society-approved judges Trump has installed. After all, the defining feature of a conservative judge is adherence to the text and meaning of the law. It’s liberal judges who pretend that laws mean whatever benefits their side of the political aisle.
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