In Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking-Glass,” Humpty-Dumpty says, “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.” Ever since Marbury v Madison, the Supreme Court has used similar logic with the Constitution. Now the Roberts SCOTUS has used this superpower to discover that the Constitution […]

In its decision in Trump et al. v Wilcox et al., the six right-wing extremists on the Roberts SCOTUS stripped independent federal agencies of their independence. In principle, the next president could restore independence to these agencies, but from now on, such decisions are tenuous at best: “With unitary executive theory, Congress cannot write robust […]