SCOTUS Emergency Relief for Trump Roils Judiciary: The Brief

THE SUPREME COURT’S multiple grants of emergency relief to the Trump administration are empowering the president to fight any lower court judge’s intervention — and sowing seeds of discord in the judiciary, Justin Wise and Jacqueline Thomsen report.

• Just this week, the high court paused multiple lower court decisions against President Donald Trump via brief, unexplained orders. One temporarily barred immigration authorities from targeting people based on their race, ethnicity, and job locations in the Los Angeles region. Trump’s Justice Department has, overall, filed more than 20 emergency applications to the high court so far during his second term.
• The ...