In short: The court’s conservatives are overturning precedent at a far greater clip than you realize. And that’s by design. At a time when their hard-right jurisprudence has tanked the court’s public standing, stealth reversals help conserve the institution’s dwindling legitimacy and temper backlash.

Far from empowering a dictator, the Justices limited executive power. And Trump’s ability to prosecute Biden.

Rulings made by the Supreme Court in its recently concluded term are the result of a long game played by conservatives from the Reagan revolution.