The Supreme Court just took a big step to rein in the deep state

The U.S. Supreme Court had one of its better rulings of the term Thursday when it struck down the Securities and Exchange Commission’s ability to punish people without a jury trial.

The ruling in SEC v. Jarkesy is significant in many ways, but especially because it will significantly curtail the federal government’s ability to hand out civil penalties through administrative courts that operate differently from criminal and civil courts.