Supreme Court Wraps Tumultuous Term

This article assumes that a Supreme Court term should be judged by how skillfully the chief justice managed his colleagues — not by whether the court's decisions protected or harmed people's rights — and that framing benefits Roberts by turning his advancement of a decades-long conservative legal project into a story about one man's impressive institutional leadership.

The article assumes that birthright citizenship is a policy problem to be solved rather than a constitutional right to be defended, organizing the entire piece around how Republicans can achieve restriction through different legal mechanisms while never once quoting a person whose citizenship would be affected.