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Judge Aileen Cannon's decision, two days after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, ignores more than two decades during which the special counsel law has been upheld by other judges and used by both Democratic and Republican administrations.
The court overturned another decades-old precedent, the Chevron deference. Opponents of all kinds of regulations meant to protect ordinary Americans will now be able to tie up proposed rules in court for years.
It could not be clearer the Supreme Court needs genuine ethics rules, not the hazy, unenforceable guidelines it approved last year. U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin has said he is thinking about holding hearings on the matter since the Alito flag controversy. The Senate has a civic duty to do so.