Posted on 01/29/2021 8:17:39 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The first major lawsuit hit President Joe Biden’s administration two days after he took office, providing an early test not only of how much conservative legal opposition his policies will draw but also of his strategy in fending off such challenges.
Unlike his Republican predecessor Donald Trump, whose administration sought to rush cases to a U.S. Supreme Court it considered friendly territory, Biden’s team may not be able to count on a sympathetic audience among the conservative justices who hold sway on the nation’s top judicial body.
The Jan. 22 lawsuit was filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a staunch Republican ally of Trump, challenging Biden’s 100-day moratorium on deportation of many immigrants. The judge in the case on Tuesday temporarily blocked Biden’s action while the litigation continues, with the potential that the matter could end up at the Supreme Court.
The high court’s 6-3 conservative majority includes three Trump appointees. Trump’s administration took a particularly aggressive stance when judges blocked his policies by quickly and repeatedly turning to the high court - sometimes bypassing intermediate federal appeals courts - in a way that broke norms.
Legal experts said Biden’s team is unlikely to use the same playbook given a Supreme Court ideological makeup that signals skepticism toward liberal policy approaches.
Trump’s administration asked the justices to block lower court rulings 41 times, according to University of Texas School of Law professor Stephen Vladeck, with the administration winning at least in part in 28 of those requests. In the 16 years prior, the Obama and George W. Bush administrations sought such relief eight times combined.
Vladeck said the numbers reflect a conservative Trump administration capitalizing on a reliably conservative court.
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People who confidently predict what the Supreme Court will do are frequently disappointed.
The myth of the “conservative” Supreme Court is about to be busted.
Someone should fasten drive belts to my eyes. They’re rolling so hard so fast they’d double our energy reserves.
Yeah, SCOTUS is definitely all in for Trump and against Bidet. [/s]
What conservative Supreme Court?
Are they joking??
PDJT could not lean on the SCOTUS.
This.
It’s already best busted. Conservatives would never lose an SC case if the court were really conservative. It’s just not.
Consider all the lower courts that repeatedly blocked President Trump with bogus injunctions from a single district court judge.
This is just laying the foundation for expanding the court...
“We HAD to do it!”
“...conservative Supreme Court...?” Yeah, not sure what that’s supposed to mean.
Ya and the moon is made of cheese.
Ah the rewriting of history continues.
“What conservative Supreme Court?”
What CJ said.
Somebody at Reuters hasn’t been paying attention...................
Another dreamer.
They are waiting for a call from Charles Schumer to advise them.
No problem for China Joe Xiden, the maybe two Constitutionalist Justices will conveniently eat their pillows while guests of Democrat legal bigwigs at some Elite Democrat Retreat.
IF the Supreme Court was conservative we would not be having this conversation.
What conservative Supreme Court would that be?
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