For years, liberal Supreme Court justices have decried the dangers of what is known as the “shadow docket,” but when it suits their short-term political ends, suddenly the docket is their friend.

In a short three-page decision written with little briefing and no oral argument, a 6-3 majority denied the Justice Department’s request to stay a district court restraining order preventing President Donald Trump from deploying the National Guard in Chicago. The court’s holding is tenuously founded, rushed, and will endanger the lives of federal law enforcement officers.