Now that some cases against the Trump administration are reaching the Supreme Court, it’s time to find out whether the conservatives on the nation’s highest court will remember how checks and balances work.

Thus far, they have not exactly covered themselves in glory, even though these cases only deal with early stages and preliminary relief.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court paused a California lower court’s ruling reinstating 16,000 probationary employees displays similar confusion about what constitutes an emergency. Six agencies being hobbled by illegal mass firings? Not an emergency. The Trump administration’s desire to keep six agencies hobbled by illegal mass firings? Totally an emergency.