How the Supreme Court has exploited Trump’s chaos.

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As the first Supreme Court term of Donald Trump’s second presidency draws to a close, the justices have been inundated with Trump-centered disputes on the shadow docket. In a series of emergency orders, the court has sought to simultaneously expand executive authority while reining in the White House’s most lawless abuses. Time and again, the justices have dodged head-on conflicts with the administration by crafting dubious compromises that drain the court of its own power. The majority seems to think it can exploit the never-ending stream of emergencies to further its own conservative vision of the law without surre