Throw out those high school textbooks which describe the judiciary as one of the checks in the constitutional system of checks and balances, says Justice Barrett in the nationwide injunctions case, albeit not exactly in those words. The role of the judiciary is not to prevent Donald Trump from being a dictator; judges simply interpret the Constitution and the statutes using the methods they learned in law school to decide the cases that come before them. If the law can be construed to permit dictatorship, so be it, and don’t complain when it happens.
She means it. Don’t say you haven’t been warned.