US President Donald Trump shakes hands with US Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP.One of the most historically consequential rulings of the Supreme Court came down yesterday. But you wouldn’t know it from the order itself.That’s because it comes to us again off the Supreme Court’s so-called “Shadow Docket,” which the radical majority of justices has wielded to horrifying effect. All we get is a decision, without explanation, and we must rely upon the dissent (once more, of the three liberal justices) to try to parse what just happened.And what just happened was this: The White House has been trying to destroy the Department of Education since Trump first took office. But doing so outright would be contrary to law. So instead, the White House is demolishing it from within by firing half of the people who work there, rendering it incapable of
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