The reality is that the court’s conservative supermajority has in recent years “taken significant, simultaneous steps to restrict the power of Congress, the administrative state, the states, and the lower federal courts,” as Stanford Law professor Mark Lemley argued in the Harvard Law Review last year. Saying that the justices should be more open about whom they’ve gotten money from and open to complaints to that effect doesn’t countermand the growth of the “imperial Supreme Court,” as Lemley dubbed it.