In the U.S. Supreme Court’s most anticipated case of its now concluded term, the justices ruled last week that President Donald Trump cannot unilaterally end birthright citizenship protections enshrined in the 14th Amendment. What should have been beyond debate instead survived by a single vote. On a host of other questions, both this week and in those preceding it, the court reshaped government in ways the Founders could never have imagined, obliterating the notion that it merely “calls balls and strikes,” as Chief Justice John Roberts once famously said. No, this court wants to swing the bat, and did so this year mostly to the nation’s detriment. The court last week struck down Trump’s attempt to severely narrow the scope of the 14th Amendment by ending birthright citizenship. Though the vote was 6-3, Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s concurring opinion concluded that laws passed by Congress, not the Constitution, rendered the executive order invalid. Taken in sum, the opinions reflect a 5-4 vote to uphold the 14th Amendment, despite the fact that its language couldn’t be cleare