JOSH BLACKMAN on the Judicial Resistance. “The consequence of this jurisprudence is that in effect, President Trump is disabled from exercising his own constitutional authority because of the circumstances in which he became president. If taken to its logical extreme, the president is now disabled from taking any actions that bear on Muslims, Hispanics, Africans, the LGBT community and countless other demographics he has displayed animus towards. That cannot be the rule of law.”

No, and it’s not meant to be. But it means that the judiciary will be, in fact, much less able to restrain Trump — or another president — who chooses simply to ignore it, because it won’t be able to call on a well of general support that transcends narrow partisan politics. Like so many institutions under Trump, the judiciary is squandering its institutional credibility for narrow, and ultimately not very important, partisan gains. And it’s doing that, at bottom, because it just can’t help itself.

Part of this, of course, is that the judiciary, regardless of political party, comes from the social class most horrified by Trump, and by Trump’s voters. Which calls for judicial reform, to address this serious lack of diversity.