The court selected two matters that arose on its emergency docket for full briefing and oral argument later in this term. On Nov. 5, the justices will hear oral arguments in Learning Resources Inc. v. Trump and Trump v. V.O.S. In December, though an argument date hasn’t been set, the court will hear Trump v. Slaughter, concerning the power of Congress to limit the president’s authority for firing agency heads. In 1935, in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld a federal law that prevented the firing of Federal Trade commissioners unless there was good cause for removal. In all my decades spent closely following Supreme Court decisions, I’ve never before felt one term had the potential to be so momentous in deciding the future of American democracy.