Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett is regaining her footing with the MAGA movement after falling from its graces.

The most junior conservative justice faced mounting criticism this spring as she broke with President Trump in emergency rulings consequential to his second-term agenda. But in the term’s most critical decisions, she proved her conservative bonafides.

Barrett authored the court’s decision along ideological lines in Trump’s birthright citizenship case that knocked federal judges down a peg, handing the president a decisive victory and issuing a full-throated takedown of one of her liberal colleagues.

Barrett’s authorship on such a significant case was notable. By tradition, Chief Justice John Roberts as the senior-most justice in the majority would’ve made the assignment — one of his most powerful responsibilities.

Barrett’s opinion on nationwide injunctions, which handed Trump perhaps his biggest court victory yet since retaking the White House, affirmed what her allies have said all along: Though the justice is carving out her own, sometimes-unpredictable path, she's not drifting to the left.

Writing for herself and the other five justices appointed by Republican presidents, Barrett limited judges’ ability to issue rulings blocking a president’s policies against anyone, anywhere.

“Nothing like a universal injunction was available at the founding, or for that matter, for more than a century thereafter. Thus, under the Judiciary Act, federal courts lack authority to issue them,” Barrett wrote.

Trump has bemoaned nationwide injunctions for months, as his sweeping agenda has repeatedly been stopped in the courts by judges who have imposed such relief. With a narrowed ability to issue nationwide blocks on his........

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