Wednesday's ruling shows the Supreme Court is just one vote shy of making Trump and Musk kings

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : For weeks, Musk has ramped up his rhetoric against judges who rule against the actions of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency that he runs.
40% : On Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court issued its first decision in Donald Trump and Elon Musk's escalating war on government agencies and Congress' power of the purse.
32% : The result: the court is one justice shy of letting Trump and Musk do whatever they want -- at least for now.
24% : Alito goes on to make a legal case for why he believes the Trump administration's refusal to pay the government's bills is unreviewable by the courts -- a stunning argument on its own -- but there is no reason to deploy the malignant tone he takes against Ali except to provide more ammunition for those targeting him and other judges who stand in the way of Trump and Musk's unconstitutional project.
19% : The bad news is that four justices think Trump and Musk should be able to unilaterally turn off congressionally-mandated spending, including for work already done.
16% : It is less than two months into the Trump administration, and Chief Justice John Roberts in particular may be wary of immediately appearing, for all intents and purposes, to crown Trump as King, particularly after Trump told him Tuesday night at the State of the Union, "Thank you again.
10% : Alito's dissent, which Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh signed onto, is not only an argument for allowing Trump and his chosen officers to ignore Congress' power of the purse -- but it is tonally a vindication for Musk, Trump, and their allies who have turned their ire on judges who have ruled against them.

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