As recently as one year ago, the Supreme Court’s Republican majority was determined to reduce executive power.

Joe Biden, a Democrat, was in the White House, and the Republican justices were very concerned that the executive branch was claiming “highly consequential power beyond what Congress could reasonably be understood to have granted.” To keep the executive in check, the Republican justices invented a legal doctrine, known as “major questions,” which was supposed to prevent the president or his subordinates from enacting new policies with “vast ‘economic and political significance’” — at least without getting very specific authorization from Congress first.

Flash forward to the present, and these same Republicans are about to reveal whether this major questions doctrine was an hones

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