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It also revealed something important: a concurrence penned by archconservative Justice Antonin Scalia, who argued that the court should have gone further and struck down McCain-Feingold’s restrictions on unlimited corporate spending entirely.

Among his contemporaries was Ed Meese, a recurring figure in the conservative movement and a close ally of a certain B-movie actor turned archconservative governor of California: Ronald Reagan.

Worse, decisions that once were Republican trophies wrought from an archconservative Supreme Court are now albatrosses weighing the Trump II project down.

But Project 2025 also embraced a distinctive “rebuilding plan,” which involved transforming the administrative state—including by strengthening components of this apparatus—into a tool for instituting its archconservative vision of society.

It’s unclear that the similarly archconservative Supreme Court will be willing to do anything about it.