America's Supreme Court faces its death

America's Supreme Court faces its death

Crunch time arrived for the nine unelected and appointed-for-life Supreme Court justices as their new term started on 6 October. Now it will fall to them – six conservatives and three liberals – to rule in a succession of cases brought on by Donald Trump’s bruising conception of executive power. The president has warped any number of constitutional and democratic norms. On day one he set out to get rid of birth right citizenship. Thousands of fe…