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  1. The now-frequent use of the "shadow docket" to quickly solve any politically charged case in the conservative direction, without proper judicial review and often when no real emergency exists, proves the point that the conservative justices were ALWAYS the activist judges the right has always complained of.

    The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court
    nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/poli

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  2. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Describes Her Fight Against Injustice | Princeton Alumni Weekly

    Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, left, discussed her memoir with Professor Deborah Pearlstein at Richardson Auditorium.

    On the Campus

    Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Describes Her Fight Against Injustice

    In a talk on campus, Jackson discussed her new memoir and highlighted lessons from her mother.

    Sameer A. Khan h’21 / SPIA / Princeton University

    By Lia Opperman ’25, Published Sept. 29, 2025, 3 min read

    Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, speaking on campus Sept. 10, said that her parents — who grew up in the segregated South — gave her the confidence to fight injustice and navigate the challenges she has faced in her career.

    “Part of my mother’s lesson was, you’re going to see the injustices, you may even face them, but you have to understand that focusing on them will end up, at times, taking you away from the work, which is really the most important thing,” she told Deborah Pearlstein, director of the Princeton Program in Law and Public Policy. She explained how her mother helped her learn to choose her battles.

    Jackson spoke about her new memoir Lovely One, which describes her path to becoming the first Black woman to serve on the nation’s highest court.

    One injustice she discussed in her talk happened during her sophomore year at Harvard, when someone in the main area of the quad where she lived put up a Confederate flag. “You have to remember that the very serious function of racism is distraction, that it keeps you from doing your work,” Jackson recalled her mother saying. She remembered repeating this at a Black Students Association meeting, which she said was helpful for the group to continue its advocacy despite the circumstances.

    Later, as an assistant special counsel to the United States Sentencing Commission, she fought to bridge disparities between sentences for drug offenses related to crack and powder cocaine, despite knowing it could jeopardize her chances of becoming appointed as a judge. After Congress changed the mandatory minimum, she worked to have sentences revised for people who had been convicted under the previous guidelines, who were predominately Black. While the commission was bipartisan, she worried about being too forceful with her approach. She delivered a passionate speech on the topic, which she said may have contributed to her appointment as a U.S. district judge in 2012.

    Jackson said among her most prized possessions is a copy of a petition filed to the Supreme Court by Clarence Gideon, a poor man who was charged with breaking and entering but was denied court-appointed counsel. He was convicted, but on appeal in 1963, the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling that any criminal defendant who can’t afford a lawyer be provided one. Jackson said as a former public defender, she understood the significance of his case.

    When asked about the Supreme Court’s emergency docket, used to address applications that seek immediate action, and the Trump administration’s frequent use of that process, Jackson said, “I think it’s hard to look at the emergency docket and glean anything right now … about the nature of the court.”

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Describes Her Fight Against Injustice | Princeton Alumni Weekly

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  3. Chief Justice Roberts Lets Trump Keep Fired Commissioner off FTC

    A lower court had ordered Trump to reinstate fired FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter.

    murica.website/2025/09/chief-j

  4. Opinion – Amy Coney Barrett Is Looking Beyond the Trump Era – The New York Times

    The Supreme Court justice isn’t making decisions based on public opinion. Credit…The New York Times.

    Opinion Interesting Times

    Amy Coney Barrett Is Looking Beyond the Trump Era

    The Supreme Court justice isn’t making decisions based on public opinion.

     There’s a roster of cases before the Supreme Court that could reshape the entire Trump presidency and redefine executive power. And my guest this week, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, is likely to be the decisive vote in some of these cases.

    Unfortunately but predictably, that means that she couldn’t or wouldn’t respond to my most direct questions about the Trump administration.

    But my goal was to push the justice on a question that she can answer, and one that she addresses at length in her new book, “Listening to the Law.” I wanted to know whether her preferred legal theory, originalism, can bend and flex in response to prudential and political concerns.

    Barrett believes strongly that it shouldn’t, that justices should rule without worrying about public opinion or who happens to be in the White House. But I tend to think real-world politics constantly tests and limits that ideal. So in our conversation, I’m trying to find those limits and the ways in which even justices devoted to the original meaning of the Constitution have to deal with the highly unusual pressures of right now.

    Amy Coney Barrett Doesn’t Need You to Like Her

    The Supreme Court justice isn’t making decisions based on public opinion.

    Below is an edited transcript of an episode of “Interesting Times.” We recommend listening to it in its original form for the full effect. You can do so using the player above or on Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube, iHeartRadio or wherever you get your podcasts. Editor’s Note: Embedded from Spotify below.

    Ross Douthat: Justice Barrett, welcome to “Interesting Times.”

    Amy Coney Barrett: Thank you for having me, Ross.

    Douthat: I honestly would never have said no. [Barrett chuckles.]

    Your book is mostly about — and we’re mostly going to talk about theories of jurisprudence, the place of the Supreme Court in American life, possibly some issues related to the Trump presidency and executive power — but it does start with a little window into the personal world of Amy Coney Barrett, so I’m going to start with a couple of questions about that terrain.

    We looked it up, and you are the first guest we’ve had on the show who has more children than I do — which is only because we haven’t yet succeeded in booking Elon Musk, I should say.

    Barrett: [Laughs.] There’s still time for you to catch up with me.

    Douthat: That’s a bold statement. I appreciate your confidence in my youthful energy and vigor.

    When you were being nominated, this newspaper, The New York Times, ran a story that talked about your mix of personal and professional obligations and how it made you a certain kind of trailblazer. And the story described you — and you can accept this description or not — as “a woman who is both unabashedly ambitious and deeply religious, who has excelled at the heights of a demanding profession,” even as she speaks openly about prioritizing her faith and family.

    I’m curious if you actually see yourself this way at all? Do you see yourself as a particular kind of trailblazer or role model in that kind of balancing act?

    Barrett: I don’t see myself as a trailblazer, nor do I love the word “ambitious,” because I feel like the word “ambition” puts a focus on success or ambition for its own sake, which isn’t how I’ve ever conceived of my career.

    When I was growing up — I was born in 1972 — my mom stayed home, and the parents of most of my friends had a working dad and a stay-at-home mom. My kids have had a mix, and for them, it’s become unexceptional to have a mom that worked, whereas it felt like a big thing for me to make the choice because my own mother had a large family — I’m one of seven — which is, I say in the book, that’s what I always wanted. That was my No. 1 priority. And I wasn’t sure that I could do that and work at the same time, but I always have, since I had our first child.

    So I think my life looks different than the life of my mom and my aunts and my friends’ parents at the time, but it’s one that my own daughters and sons and their friends, I hope, can just treat as unexceptional. Like, you can stay home if you want. You can work if you want. You can do both.

    Douthat: Do you think of yourself as a feminist — a conservative feminist, if that is a category that you would accept?

    Barrett: I don’t know, labels are so dangerous because they mean different things to different people. I mean, if being a feminist simply means having the view that women can do whatever it is they put their minds to and have opportunities open to them, then yes, I am.

    But I think any stripe of feminism that you describe is going to have — labels are risky. So I’ll just say: Yes, yes, labels are risky.

    Douthat: Labels are risky, especially when you are charged with the interpretation of the entire U.S. Constitution.

    Barrett: [Laughs.] It’s so true.

    Douthat: How do you actually do it? And I say this as someone who, obviously, works. Here I am working. My wife is a journalist and writer, and we do a lot of the same kind of balancing that you and your husband have done, and it takes some strange forms. But it’s very challenging. Any number of kids is challenging, but to have a large family and have a busy professional life — I’m just curious: As a Supreme Court justice, how do you feel like you guys make it work?

    Barrett: A lot of people ask. That’s probably the question that I get asked most often.

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: Opinion | Amy Coney Barrett Is Looking Beyond the Trump Era – The New York Times

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  5. Federal judges call SCOTUS’s shadow docket “inappropriate,” “opaque,” and a “judicial crisis” – Daily Kos

    by TheCriticalMind

    Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

    Saturday, October 11, 2025 at 4:45:27p PDT

    The current Supreme Court is making unprecedented use of the ‘shadow docket’. Reaction has been mixed. Liberals say the Court is a rubber stamp enabling Trump’s imperial presidency. MAGAs argue that SCOTUS’s conservative bloc is doing God’s work by thwarting anti-democratic rulings by unelected, activist, lower court judges.

    However, politics aside, Supreme Court rulings impact how the Judiciary does business. To understand the practical effect of the Court’s use of the shadow docket, the New York Times polled US District and Appeals Court judges.

    It reported its findings in an article titled: Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders.”

    The subhead summarized the substance of the piece. To wit:

    Dozens of sitting judges shared with The Times their concerns about risks to the courts’ legitimacy as the Supreme Court releases opaque orders about Trump administration policies.

    The Times wrote to “hundreds of federal judges across the country” — and 65 replied. The respondents are not named. But the paper said presidents of both parties had appointed them. And that, while there was a difference in degree, Judges across the political spectrum worried about SCOTUS’s high-handedness. In the NYT’s words:  

    Of the judges who responded, 28 were nominated by Republican presidents, including 10 by Mr. Trump; 37 were nominated by Democrats.

    Adding: While those nominated by Democrats were more critical of the Supreme Court, judges nominated by presidents of both parties expressed concerns.

    The paper asked the judges if they agreed or disagreed with the following statement: The Supreme Court has made appropriate use of the emergency docket since President Trump returned to office. Overall 72% said SCOTUS’s use was inappropriate, 9% hedged, and 18% (all Republican) said it was appropriate.

    Tellingly, while almost all Democrats said SCOTUS was on the wrong side of the line, nearly half the Republicans concurred. The conclusion is inescapable. When half your team thinks your side stinks, it stinks.  

     Federal judges call SCOTUS’s shadow docket “inappropriate,” “opaque,” and a “judicial crisis”

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: Federal judges call SCOTUS’s shadow docket “inappropriate,” “opaque,” and a “judicial crisis”

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  6. Introducing the Interim Relief Docket Stat Pack – SCOTUSblog

    INTERIM DOCKET

    Introducing the Interim Relief Docket Stat Pack

    By Taraleigh Davis, Jan 28, 2026

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    For years, scholars and commentators have tracked the Supreme Court’s merits docket through detailed statistical analyses. SCOTUSblog’s Stat Pack has become an essential resource for understanding how the justices decide cases after full briefing and oral argument. But the court’s “other” docket, the interim relief docket – also known as the emergency or shadow docket – has received far less systematic attention.

    Until now.

    I’m proud to introduce the first Interim Relief Docket Stat Pack, a statistical portrait of the Supreme Court’s applications for the 2024-25 term (that is, from October 7, 2024, through October 5, 2025).

    What’s included

    I have been collecting data on applications for relief (beginning with the court’s 2000-01 term) for several years. Based on this data, the current Stat Pack covers 136 applications filed during the 2024-25 term. These break down into three categories: 49 capital cases (requests to stay or vacate executions), 32 refiled applications (cases denied in chambers and referred to the full court), and 55 of what I call substantive applications. Of the 55 substantive applications, six were deferred for oral argument, leaving 49 for statistical analysis. That final category includes challenges to lower court injunctions, often from the administration; administrative enforcement disputes; First Amendment conflicts; and federalism questions.

    The Interim Relief Docket Stat Pack tracks how the justices voted on the interim docket and in what coalitions, the timing of such decisions, issue areas, who filed what, and much more – thus providing unprecedented insight into this docket. It also includes a Term Index, which is a complete case-by-case breakdown of these applications, including docket numbers, case names, outcomes, days to decision, and noted dissents.

    Some key findings

    During the 2024-25 term, the court granted relief in 53% of substantive applications, more than double the 23% grant rate from the previous term. At the same time, the justices publicly disagreed in 76% of substantive cases, far exceeding the pre-2014 average of 13.5%.

    Perhaps predictably, the Trump administration dominated much of the docket, filing 27 of 55 substantive applications and obtaining relief in a striking 90% of these. Yet only 9% of the Trump cases were decided unanimously – with justices typically publicly disagreeing along ideological lines.

    Additionally, the interim docket has (at least partly) emerged from the shadows: written opinions accompanied 31% of substantive applications, continuing the dramatic increase from near-zero during 2015-17 and 23% in 2023.

    For many more findings, please check out the Stat Pack itself, which can be downloaded below.

    As this docket continues to generate increased attention and influence, this Stat Pack should serve as an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to understand the nature of the current court.

    Interim-Relief-Stat-Pack-2024-25-Term-1Download

    Posted in Court Analysis, Emergency appeals and applications, Featured

    Recommended Citation: Taraleigh Davis, Introducing the Interim Relief Docket Stat Pack, SCOTUSblog (Jan. 28, 2026, 9:30 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/01/introducing-the-interim-relief-docket-stat-pack/

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  8. The Roberts court broadly expanded Trump’s power in 2025, with these key exceptions – Los Angeles Times

    U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, foreground, and Justices Elena Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett attend President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress in March. (Win McNamee / Getty Images)

    Politics

    The Supreme Court broadly expanded Trump’s power in 2025, with key exceptions

    U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, foreground, and Justices Elena Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett attend President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress in March.
    (Win McNamee / Getty Images)

    By David G. Savage, Staff Writer Follow. Jan. 1, 2026 3 AM PT

    • For much of the year, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and the five other conservatives were in the majority ruling for Trump.
    • The court has been criticized for handing down temporary unsigned orders with little or no explanation.

    WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., ended the first year of President Trump’s second term with a record of rulings that gave him much broader power to control the federal government.

    In a series of fast-track decisions, the justices granted emergency appeals and set aside rulings from district judges who blocked Trump’s orders from taking effect.

    With the court’s approval, the administration dismissed thousands of federal employees, cut funding for education and health research grants, dismantled the agency that funds foreign aid and cleared the way for the U.S. military to reject transgender troops.

    But the court also put two important checks on the president’s power.

    In April, the court twice ruled — including in a post-midnight order — that the Trump administration could not secretly whisk immigrants out of the country without giving them a hearing before a judge.

    Upon taking office, Trump claimed migrants who were alleged to belong to “foreign terrorist” gangs could be arrested as “enemy aliens” and flown secretly to a prison in El Salvador.

    See caption and more at below link.

    https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-12-23/supreme-court-trump-national-guard-chicago – See more at the above link.

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    Supreme Court rules against Trump, bars National Guard deployment in Chicago, Dec. 23, 2025

    Roberts and the court blocked such secret deportations and said the 5th Amendment entitles immigrants, like citizens, a right to “due process of law.” Many of the arrested men had no criminal records and said they never belonged to a criminal gang.
    Those who face deportation “are entitled to notice and opportunity to challenge their removal,” the justices said in Trump vs. J.G.G.

    They also required the government to “facilitate” the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who had been wrongly deported to El Salvador. He is now back in Maryland with his wife, but may face further criminal charges or efforts to deport him.

    And last week, Roberts and the court barred Trump from deploying the National Guard in Chicago to enforce the immigration laws.

    Trump had claimed he had the power to defy state governors and deploy the Guard troops in Los Angeles, Portland, Ore., Chicago and other Democratic-led states and cities.

    The Supreme Court disagreed over dissents from conservative Justices Samuel A. Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil M. Gorsuch.

    Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: The Roberts court broadly expanded Trump’s power in 2025, with these key exceptions – Los Angeles Times

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  9. Elena Kagan – Profile & Analysis

    Elena Kagan – Profile & Analysis

    By Steve Petteway, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States – Elena Kagan – The Oyez Project, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24636070

    Appointed by: President Barack Obama (2010), replacing Justice John Paul Stevens.

    Ideological position: Generally part of the Court’s liberal wing on voting rights, reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ equality, and the administrative state.

    Background

    • Born in New York City in 1960; educated at Princeton, Oxford, and Harvard Law School.
    • Served as a law professor and later Dean of Harvard Law School.
    • Became the first woman Solicitor General of the United States before her Supreme Court appointment.

    Judicial Style & Philosophy

    • Pragmatic liberal: Usually votes with the Court’s liberal bloc, but frames her opinions in practical, institutional terms rather than in sweeping theory.
    • Readable, accessible opinions: Known for clear, conversational writing aimed at lawyers and non-lawyers alike, often using concrete examples and occasional humor.
    • Institutionalist focus: Emphasizes process, transparency, and the Court’s legitimacy, especially in how it uses its emergency or “shadow” docket.

    Key Themes & Notable Opinions

    • Voting rights & democracy: In cases like Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, Kagan’s dissents warn that narrowing the Voting Rights Act weakens core protections for minority voters and harms democratic participation.
    • Administrative state & regulation: Opinions such as Kisor v. Wilkie and dissents in cases like West Virginia v. EPA show her concern for giving expert agencies room to implement complex statutes while still keeping them accountable to Congress and the courts.
    • Shadow docket criticism: Kagan has become one of the most vocal critics of the Court’s growing use of emergency orders to decide high-stakes disputes, arguing that unexplained late-night rulings undermine lower courts and public trust.
    • LGBTQ+ rights: She joined the majority in Obergefell v. Hodges (same-sex marriage) and has continued to support LGBTQ+ protections, warning that broad exemptions risk hollowing out formal equality.

    Role on the Trump-Era Court

    In Donald Trump’s second term, the conservative supermajority has repeatedly expanded presidential power, particularly over independent agencies and the federal workforce, often through the emergency docket. Kagan has emerged as a leading critic of this trend. In dissents to emergency orders and major merits cases, she argues that:

    • Congress, not the president alone, should control how agencies are structured and how their leaders can be removed.
    • Large shifts in federal power should not be made through unexplained emergency orders.
    • Weakening voting rights and dismantling regulatory protections threatens the democratic system the Court is meant to safeguard.

    Bottom line: Justice Kagan is the Court’s institutionalist liberal voice—focused on protecting democracy, preserving Congress’s role, and insisting that the Supreme Court explain itself openly when it makes decisions that reshape American law and government.

    Selected Sources & Further Reading

    • Oyez, “Elena Kagan: Biography and Cases.”
    • Justia, “Justice Elena Kagan – Biographical Profile & Opinions.”
    • Elena Kagan, dissents in major voting rights and administrative law cases (e.g., Brnovich v. DNC, Rucho v. Common Cause, West Virginia v. EPA).
    • Recent speeches and commentary on the Supreme Court’s emergency or “shadow” docket and judicial independence.

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  10. Supreme Court has empowered Trump. How much further will it go? – The Washington Post

    Supreme Court has expanded presidential powers under Trump. How far will it go?

    The justices will hear arguments Wednesday on the legality of most of the president’s tariffs — the first in a series of tests of sweeping claims of authority.

    November 2, 2025 at 8:36 a.m. EST, Today at 8:36 a.m. EST, 10 min

    The Supreme Court is obscured by scaffolding on Oct. 6.
    (Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post)

    By Justin Jouvenal

    For nine months, in a flood of emergency orders, the Supreme Court has allowed President Donald Trump to expand his power.

    The justices have permitted Trump to slash the federal bureaucracy, fire the heads of nominally independent agencies and exercise powers traditionally ascribed to Congress.

    How much further will the court go?

    That will be the overriding question Wednesday when the court hears arguments on the legality of most of the president’s tariffs — the first case to reach the justices in a series of high-stakes tests of Trump’ssweeping claimsof authority.

    His asserted tariff powers are uniquely dear to Trump, who has repeatedly warned of economic devastation if the court were to rule against one of his signature policies. But the other tests of presidential power could also have major impact.

    In November, the court will considerwhether to strike down a 90-year-old precedent that insulates independent agencies from White House interference. In January, it will explore whether Trump can remake the Federal Reserve, with its vast powers over the economy.

    Taken together, the cases will determine the extent to which the Supreme Court will embrace Trump’s view of a presidency constrained by few checks and wielding the type of authority typically only seen in times of war or national crisis. Decisions are expected in the cases by the summer.

    “I think the court so far has been more deferential to President Trump than most Supreme Courts in modern times,” said Matthew Dallek, a political historian at George Washington University. “It’s very hard to point to a significant way in which the court has said ‘stop’ to the White House. It raises the pressure on the court, and it raises the stakes for the term ahead.”

    White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said in a statement the high court’s rulings have corrected erroneous decisions by “far-left liberal activist judges” and thatthe president is doing what he was elected to do.

    “The President will continue implementing the policy agenda that the American people voted for in November and will continue to be vindicated by higher courts when liberal activist judges attempt to intervene,” Jackson said.

    Trump’s claim that he can unilaterally impose massive tariffs, a cornerstone of his economic agenda, is among his most aggressive moves to date. His assertion rests on a 1977 law that grants the president emergency powers to regulate international commerce. Trump’s argument that the law can be used for tariffs is one no other president has made in the statute’s 50-year history.

    The administration has asked the justices to overturn federal court rulings that found the law did not convey authority to impose tariffs. Trump said the levies, some of which he announced at an event he dubbed “Liberation Day,” will help stem the flow of fentanyl across the border and restore America’s manufacturing base.

    Small businesses and states have sued to block the levies, arguing they will cause widespread economic harm.

    Cargo ships in Hong Kong in October. (Tyrone Siu / Reuters)

    Arguably, no institution has set the stage for Trump’s efforts to expand his poweras much as the Supreme Court and in particular its chief justice. John G. Roberts Jr. has written decisions in recent years declaring the president a uniquely powerful figure.

    In a 2020 ruling, Roberts wrote the “entire ‘executive Power’ belongs to the President alone.” He has also intimated the president should have a free hand to fire low-level government employees and made it easier for the president to remove the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

    Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: Supreme Court has empowered Trump. How much further will it go? – The Washington Post

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  11. Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders – The New York Times

    Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

    Dozens of sitting judges shared with The Times their concerns about risks to the courts’ legitimacy as the Supreme Court releases opaque orders about Trump administration policies.

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    Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders – The New York Times

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    More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them confused about how to proceed in those matters and are hurting the judiciary’s image with the public.

    At issue are the quick-turn orders the Supreme Court has issued dictating whether Trump administration policies should be left in place while they are litigated through the lower courts. That emergency docket, a growing part of the Supreme Court’s work in recent years, has taken on greater importance amid the flood of litigation challenging President Trump’s efforts to expand executive power.

    While the orders are technically temporary, they have had broad practical effects, allowing the administration to deport tens of thousands of people, discharge transgender military service members, fire thousands of government workers and slash federal spending.

    The striking and highly unusual critique of the nation’s highest court from lower court judges reveals the degree to which litigation over Mr. Trump’s agenda has created strains in the federal judicial system.

    Sixty-five judges responded to a Times questionnaire sent to hundreds of federal judges across the country. Of those, 47 said the Supreme Court had been mishandling its emergency docket since Mr. Trump returned to office.

    The judges responded to the questionnaire and spoke in interviews on the condition of anonymity so they could share their views candidly, as lower court judges are governed by a complex set of rules that include limitations on their public statements.

    Of the judges who responded, 28 were nominated by Republican presidents, including 10 by Mr. Trump; 37 were nominated by Democrats. While those nominated by Democrats were more critical of the Supreme Court, judges nominated by presidents of both parties expressed concerns.

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders – The New York Times

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  12. White House requests $58 million to increase security for executive, judicial branches after Charlie Kirk shooting, sources say

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  13. Opinion | Tariffs are the Supreme Court’s biggest test yet – The Washington Post

    Democracy Dies in Darkness

    Opinion | Jason Willick

    The fate of Trump’s tariffs hinges on this Supreme Court doctrine

    Will justices rein in presidential power or entrench suspicions of partisan bias?

    September 12, 2025 at 7:45 a.m. EDT, Today at 7:45 a.m. EDT, 5 min

    Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. speaks to the Georgetown Law School Class of 2025 in May. (Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP, File)

    There will be plenty of legal clashes in the next three-plus years of Donald Trump’s term in office, but it’s hard to imagine that any will be more significant — for the presidency or the Supreme Court — than the tariff case the justices agreed to hear this week.

    For the presidency the case is crucial because, even though executive power has swelled in the 21st century, one key constraint remains: Congress’s exclusive power to fund the government. The president might control “the sword,” as the Founding Fathers put it, but the people’s elected representatives can always withhold the money he needs to use it. If the president can spontaneously impose tariffs at any level, at any time, to raise hundreds of billions of dollars a year without congressional approval, that fundamental constraint is not holding.

    For the Supreme Court the case is crucial because Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has vigorously applied a doctrine against the last two Democratic administrations aimed at limiting precisely this kind of executive adventurism. The “major questions doctrine” basically says that executive actions with a huge political and economic impact are legally suspect if they are not clearly authorized by Congress or the Constitution.

    Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

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  14. Letters from an American – July 15, 2025 – by Heather Cox Richardson

    By Heather Cox Richardson, July 15, 2025

    Heather Cox Richardson

    Without any explanation, the right-wing majority on the Supreme Court yesterday granted a stay on a lower court’s order that the Trump administration could not gut the Department of Education while the issue is in the courts. The majority thus throws the weight of the Supreme Court behind the ability of the Trump administration to get rid of departments established by Congress—a power the Supreme Court denied when President Richard M. Nixon tried it in 1973.

    This is a major expansion of presidential power, permitting the president to disregard laws Congress has passed, despite the Constitution’s clear assignment of lawmaking power to Congress alone.

    President Donald J. Trump has vowed to eliminate the Department of Education because he claims it pushes “woke” ideology on America’s schoolchildren and that its employees “hate our children.” Running for office, he promised to “return” education to the states. In fact, the Education Department has never set curriculum; it disburses funds for high-poverty schools and educating students with disabilities. It’s also in charge of prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race and sex in schools that get federal funding.

    Trump’s secretary of education, professional wrestling promoter Linda McMahon, supports Trump’s plan to dismantle the department. In March the department announced it would lay off 1,378 employees—about half the department. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia sued to stop the layoffs, and Massachusetts federal judge Myong Joun ordered the department to reinstate the fired workers. The Supreme Court has now put that order on hold, permitting the layoffs to go forward.

    Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan concurred in a dissent written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, noting that Trump has claimed power to destroy the congressionally established department “by executive fiat” and chastising the right-wing majority for enabling him. “When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and then executes on that promise, it is the Judiciary’s duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it,” they say.

    “The President must take care that the laws are faithfully executed, not set out to dismantle them. That basic rule undergirds our Constitution’s separation of powers. Yet today, the majority rewards clear defiance of that core principle with emergency relief.”

    Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

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  15. Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance – SCOTUS to Trump: Due Process!

    SCOTUS to Trump: Due Process!
    Alito and Thomas dissent

    By Joyce Vance, May 17, 2025

    Friday afternoon, the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 In one of the many immigration cases currently in the courts as a result of Trump’s deportation of alleged Tren de Aragua gang members without any due process. In A.A.R.P. v. Trump, the Court enjoined the government from summarily deporting alleged gang members under the Alien Enemies Act while litigation over the constitutionality of those deportations works its way through the courts.

    The decision is a per curiam opinion, which means no single justice signed it, but it represents the view of seven of them. You can read the full decision here. It runs to 24 pages, and is worth spending some time with, if only to get the Court’s tone. Suffice it to say, the majority is displeased with the government.

    This was not a full decision on the merits of the case, which, when it happens, will determine whether Trump can use the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged gang members. This decision was another of the type we’ve seen frequently since Trump retook office, an effort to prevent him from going ahead with a scheme of dubious legality while the courts determine whether that scheme is legal. The Court wrote, “To be clear, we decide today only that the detainees are entitled to more notice than was given on April 18, and we grant temporary injunctive relief to preserve our jurisdiction while the question of what notice is due is adjudicated.

    Editor’s Note: The linked above PDF is also available via my Blog. See file below…

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