Last week the Supreme Court gave the country one notable gift in blocking the Trump administration’s efforts to deploy the National Guard to Chicago, part of a campaign of intimidation that has seen troops deploy now to various (invariably heavily Democratic) areas. Six justices said no to Trump, Chief John Roberts, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett and Ketanji Brown Jackson, while only three stood with him: Clarence Thomas, Sam Alito and Neil Gorsuch. That doesn’t take the high court off the naughty list; this shadow docket decision is all the more notable for how comically these decisions have so far tilted in favor of Trump. Prior to this ruling, the Supreme Court had issued 24 decisions on its emergency docket, of which 20 had gone in favor of the Trump administration, often overturning district and circuit court decisions that had sided against, on what were sometimes relatively obvious points of law. For the justices to slap down Trump’s attempts to use it as a get-out-of-legal-compliance-free card, something seems to have to be both extremely u