Adjourning the court on Brett Kavanaugh

The judicial branch of the federal government “will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution,” Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist Paper 78.

“The judiciary,” he continued, “has no influence over the sword or the purse” and “is beyond comparison the weakest of the three departments of power.”

If he had been around during the fight over seating Brett Kavanaugh on...