When looking at judicial review of Trump 2.0’s many audacious power grabs, it’s easy to get bogged down and tangled up in legalisms. Constitutional law is complicated. Federal court procedures are not designed to cope with unprecedented assertions of presidential power advanced almost hourly in places all over the country. An extraordinary percentage of lower court, appellate court, and Supreme Court cases involving the administration’s actions are on emergency dockets. Staid jurists are trying to keep up with a fast-moving Trump train that is very deliberately violating norms in every direction.

But now a three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, in a ruling that halted a National Guard deployment in Chicago, wrote some sentences that cut through the fog like a powerfu

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