The Supreme Court’s rush of decisions last week belies several myths concocted by its leftist critics.Listen to Democratic politicians or read liberal legal commentators, and you would believe that a conservative Supreme Court is marching in lockstep with Donald Trump to impose an extremist agenda on an unwilling American people.Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, for example, often criticizes what he dubs "the MAGA Supreme Court" for transforming government agencies into "members-only clubs for his golf buddies and cronies." House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries decries "the corrupt conservative majority on the Supreme Court appointed by Donald Trump" for taking "a blowtorch" to civil rights laws.
Almost every Democratic leader, especially those jockeying for position in the 2028 presidential race, demands that Congress pack the Court in order to correct this alleged bias of the conservative justices."We [should] talk about the idea of Supreme Court reform, which includes expanding the Supreme Court," 2024 Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris said last week.The Supreme Court term that just ended, however, proves the exact opposite.
It shows a Court that takes its bearings more from the original understanding of the Constitution, and from an interest in maintaining economic and political stability, than from Donald Trump.GORSUCH SAYS IDEOLOGICAL DIVIDES ON SUPREME COURT COME DOWN TO ‘HOW YOU READ LAW,’ NOT POLITICSIn one of the most significant Supreme Court terms this century, Trump may have gained more than he lost.But he has won only when his constitutional positions coincided with the longer-term agenda of the Roberts Court: restoring the separation of powers and federalism, containing the administrative state, ending the use of race by government, and expanding neglected First and Second Amendment rights.
But when Trump has sought approval for his more aggressive political policies, he has lost to shifting majorities of conservative and libe...