The feelings about the high courts expedited emergency docket handdowns….
The process HAS favored Trump 80% of the time , much MORE (Alito & Co.?) than Biden……
That HAS allowed Trump to get around other Federal Judges who have been AGAINST the President MORE THAN 80% of the time….
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Monday said the Supreme Court’s handling of emergency cases has created a “warped” process that effectively signaled the outcome of high-profile controversies prematurely, describing that as an “unfortunate” departure from how the justices handled short-fuse appeals just a few decades ago.
“This uptick in the court’s willingness to get involved with cases on the emergency docket is a real unfortunate problem,” Jackson said in remarks at the federal courthouse in Washington, DC, during an event attended by lower court judges and lawyers. “I think it is not serving the court or our country well at this point.”
Though Jackson’s point was similar to one she has repeatedly made in written dissents, the liberal justice’s airing of her concerns added a degree of tension to the event in which she spoke alongside Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a conservative who offered a vastly different view of the reasons for the increase in the court’s “shadow docket” rulings and its significance.
Jackson’s comments came as the three-justice liberal wing has expressed growing frustration with the conservative Supreme Court’s resolution of a flood of emergency appeals in President Donald Trump’s favor, including decisions that allowed the administration to significantly step up immigration enforcement, fire the leaders of independent federal agencies and cut spending approved by Congress. The court has backed the Trump administration in 80% of those cases, a far higher share than during the Biden administration….
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“I think it’s because the Supreme Court has shown a willingness to grant these emergency motions,” she said. “Brett will remember that when we clerked some 20 years ago, this was not the Supreme Court’s stance, that just because these motions were filed the court actually had to entertain and grant them on their merits.”
As if speaking at a televised presidential debate, Friedman asked if Kavanaugh wanted to offer a rebuttal.
“Ketanji states it well,” Kavanaugh responded, before adding that “you have to have the same position, no matter who’s president. “
“I agree with that,” Jackson said.
“I know you do,” Kavanaugh added.
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“Today’s decision shows, not for the first time, how our emergency docket can malfunction,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote in a dissent joined by Jackson. “The court is impatient: It already knows what it thinks, and insists on getting everything over quickly.”…
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