The past year was remarkably notorious for the Supreme Court. Its conservative supermajority tore and tore into the very fabric of the Constitution, siding with the Trump administration—a count in October showed Trump winning 21 of 23 cases—in cases that repeatedly, and recklessly, expanded his use of executive branch powers.

The high court approved the dismissal of thousands of federal employees, massive cuts to research funding in health and education and the demolition of USAID; it allowed the U.S. military to bar transgender troops from serving and nearly obliterated precedent supporting federal agencies being independent from the President’s whims—all this primarily through overuse of their emergency docket process, or the “shadow docket.”

But you wouldn’t have known any of this reading Chief Justice John Roberts’

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