Donald Trump has made 21 unusual requests to the Supreme Court. George W. Bush and Barack Obama had eight requests combined
ORDINARILY, the Supreme Court is a tribunal of last resort. Only after exhausting avenues for relief in the lower courts do parties tend to turn to America’s highest court—and, about 99 times out of 100, the justices refuse to take up their cases. The executive branch fares better than most litigants in persuading the Supreme Court to reconsider unfavourable rulings, but the president typically waits his turn like everybody else. Not so with President Donald Trump.
The administration's most recent plea was filed with Justice Elena Kagan on August 26th. Noel Francisco, Mr Trump’s solicitor general,the court to lift a district-court injunction against a rule, announced on July 16th, that “screens out asylum seekers who declined to request protection at the first opportunity”. This would deny a shot at asylum to anyone who appears at America’s southern land border having passed up a chance to apply for asylum while travelling through another country.
The government was not satisfied with this partial win. Judge Tigar’s ruling stands a good chance of eventually being nullified by the Supreme Court, Mr Francisco wrote to the justices, and in the meantime, the asylum rule could “address an ongoing crisis at the southern border, with significant implications for ongoing diplomatic negotiations and foreign relations”.
What is new, Mr Vladeck argues, is not just the spike in extraordinary requests. It is the justices’ apparent "acquiescence" in the government’s game of leapfrog. Even when the court has denied Mr Trump's requests, the more conservative justices have often penned dissents to explain why they should have been granted. And only once, inhas a member of the court pressed the point that emergency relief requires a particularly robust explanation.
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