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The Supreme Court’s majority chose the opaque system of an unsigned, unargued, unbriefed and unreasoned order to issue a body-blow to the rule of law, undermining lower court rulings and Congressional statutes, specifically the Convention Against Torture.

Beyond the big merits cases concerning everything from birthright citizenship to healthcare for trans minors to racial gerrymandering to defunding Planned Parenthood, and beyond the brief, unbriefed, unargued emergency docket cases, the Supreme Court’s conservatives are in a power struggle with the very president they crowned quasi-king.

We are both reasonably certain that Justice Samuel Alito would have been even more contemptuous of the unbriefed 13th Amendment arguments that were never put forth in Dobbs than he was of the decades of binding precedent he swept aide.

Two adults dealing with a petulant, unbriefed, unprepared tantrum.

“Never go into a situation unbriefed,” he says.