Supreme Court shows signs of frustration after lower court overreaches

The Supreme Court has been away from Washington, D.C. for two months, since its final regular decision day, but as its emergency docket has continued to fill up during the summer, the justices are showing growing frustration over lower courts’ orders.

As lower courts continue to issue orders blocking various actions by the Trump administration, more of those cases have come to the Supreme Court’s emergency docket and led to interim action from the justices. While the high court has issued orders that have told lower courts how they should handle similar cases while litigation proceeds, the justices have had to issue several similar orders in the face of lower court intransigence, leading some justices to warn the lower courts not to defy them.

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