President Donald Trump is trying to ransack the Constitution, and the Supreme Court’s conservative majority too often appears to be either complacent or just lost. The blows come weekly, even daily, with headlines about, say, the Court permitting the deportation, without adequate due process, to South Sudan of migrants with no connection to that country. The Court has also allowed Trump to begin dismantling the Department of Education, and issued rulings constraining trans rights. Most remarkably, in Trump v. CASA, a decision whose declared purpose was to stop lower-court judges from issuing nationwide, or “universal,” injunctions—in itself a reasonable enough move, as such injunctions have been misused in partisan ways—the conservative Justices acted as if there might be some constitutional mystery about the citizenship of babies born in the United States. There is not, under the plain language of the Fourteenth Amendment. “Shamefully,” as Justice Sonia Sotomayor put it in a scathing dissent, the majority seemed too timid to say so.journey-inline-newsletterinline-newsletter