Posted on 08/22/2024 6:44:50 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Less than a month ago, Justice Elena Kagan suggested the Supreme Court consider dialing back its review of significant cases on its controversial emergency docket.
“Our summers used to be actually summers,” Kagan told a group of judges in California, lamenting the “relentless” filing of emergency appeals. “We’ve gotten into a pattern where we’re doing too many of them.”
Since then, the Supreme Court’s emergency caseload has exploded.
In coming days, the high court is expected to tackle short-fuse challenges to President Joe Biden’s latest effort to reduce student debt and to cut planet-warming pollution by limiting power plant emissions. And the court must decide whether Arizona, a presidential battleground, may require thousands of people to prove their US citizenship before voting this year. Also pending is a fight over Biden’s requirement that family planning clinics that receive federal public health funding provide referrals for abortions for patients who request it.
The court’s emergency docket – the “shadow docket,” to critics – is where the justices deal with questions that need resolution faster than the months it can take to submit briefs, hear oral arguments and draft formal opinions on its regular docket.
The cases usually deal with the narrow question of what will happen as that underlying legal process plays out. But the orders can have significant and immediate real-world consequences.
“There’s just no disputing that this has been a busier summer for emergency applications, both by volume and by significance, than any summer we’ve seen in a long time – if ever,” said Steve Vladeck, a CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, who says the court is essentially inviting these cases by issuing emergency rulings with more impact.
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“Given that the court continues to grant emergency relief in contexts in which it didn’t until recently – and given that there’s virtually no downside to seeking emergency relief – it’s effectively open season for aggressive lawyers,” he said.
So Kagan was to not work and at the same time allow bad faith cases from liberal to exist in limbo or not even be addressed so they can continue to harm the country.
Good to know
So Kagan does not want too work all year? Cry me a river!
“Our summers used to be actually summers,” Kagan told a group of judges...” Oh, boo hoo. With the exception of public school teachers and upper administration in colleges, most working people work throughout the summer. My son has been a teacher at private schools for nearly 30 years, and he has yet to have more than 2 weeks off in the summer. As an RN, I never had a summer off, either.
If liberals weren’t busy trying to do so many unConstitutional things, life would be easier for her. Put the blame where it belongs and quit whining.
Sounds like the symptoms from a lawless Democrat administration and lawless states in the Republic! Follow the Constitution and the law and maybe all of this would go away.
This seems like an inevitable outcome of democrat lawfare.
She was a professor, summers off were important to her. Having never been a judge before, and only argued six cases in court before becoming a supreme court justice, she has been sad to discover that full time work is hard.
Indeed. The Left’s relentless onslaught against their political enemies is the cause.
I,personally,can see you doing very well in modeling!
the supreme court needs to rein in the lower courts and start ejecting judges that are constantly overturned... clean up the lower courts and summers will become summers again for the supremes.
SCOTUS is basically lazy and loves to duck important cases.
Congress won't address hot button issues because they fear re-election battles. Just another reason for term limits. Congress could easily pass laws that require voter ID for federal elections, laws (with teeth ) making it illegal for non-citizens to vote. These emergency appeals are a result of Federal and State Executive overreach which could adversely affect citizens if while the cases work there way through the judicial system. Essentially the other two branches are punting the problems to the courts.
This is really about the Arizona citizen’s case. The Constitution specifically states that the individual state legislatures have authority and responsibility to make election laws.
The 9th Circuit took that from then and said that law cannot be upheld until they decide it AFTER November of 2024.
In essence, the law, perfectly legal; was challenged—not decided—but the higher court put a stay on Arizona fulfilling their law—until after the election, and Arizona is asking the Supremes to lift that stay so the law, which by the way, the 9th didn’t say was illegal, can be applied to this election.
Answer me this, what political party wants to ensure only legal citizens can vote? Moreover, does existing law prohibit non-citizens from voting? (Yes, it does, and it’s been that way forever).
So why would the Left/democrats challenge this law? They WANT non-citizens to be able to vote, and/or ballots filled out in their names not challenged.
If Trump wins Arizona, the dems are further way from winning the presidency.
“Our summers used to be actually summers,” Kagan told a group of judges in California, lamenting the “relentless” filing of emergency appeals. “We’ve gotten into a pattern where we’re doing too many of them.”
So let Kagan and Sotomayor take summers off. The Chief Justice and the remaining six justices constitute a quorum.
Elena Kagan modeling made me think of this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CaMUfxVJVQ
Agreed.
Try working in a restaurant.
I didn’t get holidays or weekends off either.
good luck getting an only eight hour shift that actually gives a 15 minute break.
This is the consequence of having a lawless President.
IS DAY WEAR!
VERY NICE!
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