Twice in the last six decades, the American judiciary, foremost the Supreme Court, has intervened when it believed a president exceeded his authority. Richard Nixon now has company with the twice-impeached incumbent. The specifics of the tariff case matter less than the conservative court’s strong message that presidential decorum had been violated. This leader despises those who stand in his way, and, like a petulant child, he responds vindictively as if caught with his hand in the cookie jar. His tormentors — he said in crass language of a kind never before directed at a Supreme Court — were “fools and lapdogs,” the most disgraceful of anti-American enemies. Democracy and the rule of law should apparently not constrain the “lust for unbridled power,” a no-nonsense phrase assigned to him recently by a Texas judge regarding an ICE deportation order. The president has already imposed a new 15% global tariff to defy the court’s ruling. But in both legal and symbolic terms, and they matter, the president-felon has been warned he has exceeded his authority. It is not America First but Democracy First. Kick and scream as he might, he has finally been rebuked, the fools and lapdogs, some of whom he appointed, ultimately doing the nation a brave favor.