Having undermined the law and the Constitution with some terrible opinions in deference to Donald Trump, today brings the first day of the new U.S. Supreme Court term, and with it the risk that our nation’s highest judicial body will continue to make us a less fair, less moral and less safe society.

As with other recent terms, the weightiness of the court and the significance of its decisions belies some of the absurdity of the questions it is considering. Case in point, the justices have decided to take up the question of the Trump administration’s mandatory detention policy for many undocumented immigrants, which relies on the reinterpretation of a federal statute that bars “arriving aliens” from requesting bond from immigration judges to include everyone who entered the country unlawfully.

Under this preposterous interpretation, someone who........

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