tw: politics
Today I learned that, since April, the Supreme Court of the United States has sided with Trump in all 15 rulings it has issued on the President’s emergency requests. Of those 15 rulings, the court has only written 3 majority opinions. 7 have come with no explanation at all.
I don’t have to convince anyone here of what’s going on in America, obvs. I just wanted to share because this fact surprised me. I didn’t realize that they weren’t even justifying their decisions, which normally they do.
I thought many of these were in the “Shadow docket” (or emergency docket), which is not new and is usually not given justifications/opinions. I understand these are traditionally cases where the legal question just isn’t interesting (or expedient to flesh out). The court doesn’t hide this practice, you can read about it here: Related news service
This isn’t to say the court is acting normally. But I want to complicate this observation; one should compare with other presidents and issues.
Previous presidents didn’t load up the emergency docket with unconstitutional overreaches.