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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is pulling back the curtain on a lot of mischief at SCOTUS, and one Democratic senator says the court’s right-wing supermajority should be very worried about that.

And the conservative supermajority has been unable to muster a response.

So, in CASA, the conservative supermajority shot down universal injunctions altogether, stripping lower courts of their most effective weapon against executive overreach.

Still, it is curious to see this rhetorical sharpshooter and ruthless logician hold her fire when the supermajority uses procedural shortcuts to rubber-stamp a policy of questionable legality and unfathomable cruelty.

Kagan surely knows this, but as the court hollows out constitutional safeguards at a record pace, it is worth bearing in mind: At a certain point, a conciliatory stance toward this conservative supermajority risks blurring the line between compromise and complicity.