These countries ... have demonstrated that moral courage can coexist with diplomacy and that choosing humanity over expediency carries weight on the international stage.
Should the justices side with Trump, they will — blinded by ideology — throw the system of checks and balances to the would-be dictator like raw meat.
[T]rump has sent a message to every autocrat on the planet: aggression pays, and Western patience has its limits. History will harshly judge this capitulation dressed as diplomacy.