The latest order from the Supreme Court reminds us that the court exercises significant control over its docket and is willing to use its power to move the law in the majority's preferred direction. The justices exercise this power not only in how they answer the legal questions before them but, as this latest case shows, by deciding which questions to answer in the first place.

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