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    The Supreme Court Is Trump’s Enforcer

    This administration seems to regard “extraordinary relief” from the high court as nothing more than its due.
    by Garrett Epps Sep 15, 2019 5 minutes
    Source: Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Associated Press

    The Supreme Court has been battered in the past three years—by the Merrick Garland blockade, Mitch McConnell’s electoral weaponization of the nomination system, and the Brett Kavanaugh debacle; by President Donald Trump’s pointed attacks on “so-called judges,” on the chief justice of the Supreme Court, and on what he calls, in scare quotes, the “independent judiciary.” It would be odd if that process made no change in how the Court sees itself—all institutions, after all, inevitably evolve over time. Add two new justices who owe their elevation to Trump and the table is set for rapid, unpredictable transformation.

    What role does the Court have in the Trump era?

    These musings take on new urgency after the Court’s decision Wednesday to allow the administration to implement its new, restrictive rules for amnesty applications at the southern border. That decision

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