In short: The court’s conservatives are overturning precedent at a far greater clip than you realize. And that’s by design. At a time when their hard-right jurisprudence has tanked the court’s public standing, stealth reversals help conserve the institution’s dwindling legitimacy and temper backlash.

President Biden’s re-election strategy boils down to persuading Americans that Donald Trump poses a threat to democracy. After the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision on Monday, Mr. Biden warned in a speech that “any President, including Donald Trump, will now be free to ignore the law.”

In a major ruling on June 28, the Supreme Court took an ax to the power of federal agencies to interpret the laws they administer and ruled that courts should rely on their own interpretation of ambiguous laws.