President-elect Donald Trump said Jan. 9 that the Supreme Court's decision not to halt the sentencing in his hush money case was a “fair decision.”

It would be a stretch to say that the major-questions doctrine doomed Democrats’ chances of keeping the White House in the 2024 presidential election. But there is no doubt that the Supreme Court’s newest weapon against federal agencies seriously hamstrung the Biden administration’s ability to follow through on its campaign promises and accomplish several concrete policy goals.