Goldsmith's Sense and Edsall's Nonsense about the Supreme Court

Last week, Thomas Edsall penned a column for the New York Times, "The Supreme Court Has Finally Found a President It Likes," arguing that the Supreme Court's conservative majority "has become a key enabler of President Trump's agenda." The column repeated (albeit in somewhat exaggerated form) common critiques of how the Supreme Court has handled requests for extraordinary relief from the Trump Administration, and in the process painted quite a distorted picture of the Court and its actions. (For my prior take on these questions, see here and here.)

Harvard law professor Jack Goldsmith, in his latest Executive Functions post, "Sense and Nonsense about the Supreme Court Interim Orders," takes aim at the Edsall piece, and some of its most severe distortions. As Goldsmith notes, Edsall frames