We seem to have the Supreme Court’s originalism fail of the term.

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On Monday, the Supreme Court heard argument in a case that could upend how the federal government has been run for over a century. In Trump v. Slaughter , a challenge to the president’s firing of a Federal Trade Commission member without cause, the court seems poised to toss one of its 90-year-old precedents, nullify dozens of laws enacted by both political parties, and shift massive power to Donald Trump that Congress never intended to consolidate in one person.

You’d think there would be a rock-solid constitutional basis for unelected judges to dictate this kind of governmental restructuring. Or at least a hesitance to usher in such a radical break from establ