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The Trump administration faced a series of setbacks in the lower courts this past week, topped off by a major loss in its crusade to cancel $2.2 billion in federal grants for Harvard. U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs ruled that the assault on the university brazenly violated the First Amendment by mandating conformity with the administration’s views—though she also set Harvard on a winding path of additional litigation to restore the canceled grants. In one remarkable passage, Burroughs also criticized the Supreme Court’s cryptic shadow docket decisions, then condemned the justices for scolding lower courts that are unable to divine the meaning of these cr

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