The spate of recent Supreme Court decisions overturning Trump administration losses in the lower courts are all about saving face—and securing power.

When the Supreme Court last year wrestled with whether to grant then-former President Donald Trump broad immunity from prosecution, conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch stressed the ruling did not just apply to Trump but was “for the ages.

The U.S. Supreme Court late Thursday delivered the administration its most substantial court loss of President Donald Trump’s second term. But the situation is far from over. And it has raised the possibility of a high-profile constitutional clash,