It is patently clear now (if it weren’t all the way back to the dueling historical narratives in Heller) that this is an exercise in bad history and cherry-picking. Why pretend otherwise? Those now ascendant didn’t indulge the old majorities by using their frames when dissenting and instead used them to build a cadre of fellow travelers.

In a Supreme Court term that handed Trump and conservatives, big wins, Ketanji Brown Jackson − the newest justice − has emerged as fierce voice of dissent.