As legal challenges to the Trump administration mount, the justices are facing a key test — a flood of “emergency applications” asking for immediate intervention.
The Trump administration has made emergency requests of the Supreme Court in recent weeks to intervene on actions including freezing more than a billion dollars in foreign aid, deporting Venezuelans to a prison in El Salvador without due process and ending birthright citizenship.
In a series of narrow and technical rulings, the justices have seemed to take pains to avoid a showdown with a president who has challenged the judiciary’s legitimacy.
A slew of cases related to President Trump’s executive orders have arrived on what critics call the court’s “shadow docket,” as emergency applications requiring the justices to move very quickly, on thin briefs and no oral arguments.
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