A few minutes before midnight Wednesday, the nation got its first glimpse of how profoundly President Trump had transformed the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court late Wednesday barred restrictions on religious services in New York that Gov. Andrew Cuomo had imposed to combat the coronavirus. The 5-4 ruling was the first in which the court’s newest member, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, played a decisive role.

When President Trump pardoned Michael Flynn on Wednesday, he did more than wipe clean the record of his first national security adviser, who had twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. He also bolstered the hopes of a wide array of clemency seekers that he might deliver a wave of pardons and commutations before leaving office.