WHAT WILL WE SAY about the Supreme Court when the storm has passed? That it was strong? That it stood firm against a rogue president? If, when the crisis comes, the justices make Donald Trump blink, then eventually,

Chief Justice John Roberts hates attending presidential addresses, where judicial decorum requires that judges maintain an impartial equanimity amid a partisan free-for-all. "To the extent the State of the Union has degenerated into a political pep rally,

Justice Amy Coney Barrett has joined Chief Justice John Roberts as the "conservative" members of the Supreme Court most likely to side with its liberal wing. The most recent example was this week when Roberts and Barrett joined with Justices Sonia Sotomayor,

A majority of Supreme Court justices did not attend Donald Trump’s joint speech to Congress Tuesday night, among them two of the court’s three liberals: Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Also absent were Justices Samuel Alito,

He was there again on Tuesday, accompanied by Justices Brett M. Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, both appointed by President Trump; Justice Elena Kagan, appointed by President Barack Obama; and Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, a Reagan appointee who retired in 2018.

For this to be the outcome of the first huge clash between Trump and the Supreme Court in his second term is quite surprising and extraordinary.

Earlier, the chief justice temporarily let the Trump administration avoid paying out congressionally appropriated funds for now.

President Trump ripped “sleazebag journalists” for saying his comment to Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. at Tuesday’s address to a joint session of Congress meant more than it did.