James Boasberg: “Judges should not work from a desired outcome in assessing the law and facts.”

This Court found that the subpoenas were meant to harass Powell and to pressure him to truckle to the President’s policy preferences.

The Constitution does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial orders—especially by officials of a coordinate branch who have sworn an oath to uphold it.

Perhaps the biggest question surrounding these cases is whether the Supreme Court will stand behind the judges enforcing its rulings on the ground.

Wouldn’t it have been a better course to return the planes around the United States as opposed to going forward and saying, ‘We don’t care, we’ll do what we want’?