The Supreme Court just handed Trump a rare — and very significant — loss

Supreme Court justices stand during President Donald Trump’s second inauguration | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

The same Supreme Court that ruled that President Donald Trump is allowed to use the powers of the presidency to commit crimes finally placed a meaningful limit on Trump’s authority on Tuesday.

In Trump v. Illinois, three Republican justices joined all three of the Court’s Democrats in ruling that Trump violated federal law when he deployed a few hundred members of the National...