They’re not bypassing procedure. They were directly petitioned by the DOJ to intercede. A petitioner is all that’s needed for the SCOTUS to weigh in on. Set procedures aren’t relevant. SCOTUS has jurisdiction of all the inferior courts.
I think what we’re seeing is the SCOTUS saving face for the Judges so as not to further damage judicial standings.
It’s only a matter of time before the Executive branch in support or not from Congress flat out tells the inferior court to bugger off. I’ll do my thing and we’ll let Scotus decide afterwords. ‘Staying’ in effect any judicial ruling lower than SCOTUS.
That will be devastating to the judicial system which is why they do no like to engage in political arena. I think it was described by a late Supreme court Justice that the court can only lose relevance when it engages in political contests. and it can never be brought back (paraphrased). It’s somewhere in the Cornell Law Library.
Thanks for the coherent explanation.
The latest judge that ruled on this essentially claimed for himself the powers of the President over this issue - ordering the President to reinstate an Executive Order. That is clearly not acceptable. As far as I’m concerned that is an impeachable offense for a judge to do something like that. Either the judge is corrupt or not competent to practice law - and either way, not qualified to be a judge.