If history teaches us anything, it is that acting like “everything is up for grabs” is precisely what produces reigns of terror.

“The text of a law,” as the newest justice says, “is the law.”

Judges are not supposed to draft the laws they want; they are supposed to apply the laws they get from Congress.

We, however, are determined to learn whether responsible and disciplined—in a word, constitutional—government can survive the death of civic piety.