As a new term begins, the justices have continually failed to provide a check on presidential power – with disastrous consequences As a new term begins, the justices have continually failed to provide a check on presidential power – with disastrous consequences T wo 0f the world’s best-known authoritarian leaders – Viktor Orbán, Hungary ’s prime minister, and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey ’s president – have each had at least 15 years at their country’s helm to pack the courts with loyalists and