I’ve been sidelined and haven’t yet had occasion to read with care the Supreme Court’s rulings on Tuesday holding that two separate laws prohibit an employer from retaliating against an employee who complains of unlawful discrimination. It’s striking, though, that even the Washington Post’s house editorial calls both rulings “deeply flawed”: “Protecting employees from retaliation makes sense, but it is not the province of judges to create such protections on the basis of their own beliefs of what is right or wrong, or even on the basis of their intuitive sense of what Congress meant to do or should have done.” In crude political labeling, the Post thus positions itself to the right of both Justice Alito (who authored one of the rulings and joined the other) and Chief Justice Roberts (who joined one of them and dissented in the other). So much for the “unbreakable” “right-wing phalanx” of leftist mythology.