Sotomayor: Supreme Court emergency docket appeals by Trump ‘unprecedented’
The Trump administration has filed 34 emergency applications to the Supreme Court, a move critics and some justices call unprecedented.
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor criticized the Trump administration's "unprecedented" use of the Supreme Court's emergency docket. She argued that bypassing lower court deliberations to seek immediate policy wins undermines thorough legal review and ignores historical judicial norms.
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