Justice Jackson says Supreme Court intervenes too quickly on Trump’s side

WASHINGTON − Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson continued her ongoing criticism of how her colleagues are handling emergency appeals, telling an audience on Sept. 24 that requests for immediate intervention can’t become a “special avenue that certain privileged litigants can use selectively.”

“As one of my colleagues recently suggested in an opinion,” Jackson said during remarks at the University of the District of Columbia law school, “some frequent emergency docket filers have the court on speed dial.”

Although Jackson never mentioned the Trump administration, she was referring to Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent last year when the conservative court backed the administration in a dispute with a federal judge over the administration’s attempt to deport eight migrants to South Sudan.

In her own opinions, Jackson − one of the three liberal justices − has complained that the court is showing preferential treatment for the government, along with a willingness to undercut lower court judges.

She did so last year when the court allowed the administration to block $783 million in grants for health research.

“This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist,” Jackson wrote, referring to a made-up game in the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. “Calvinball has only one rule…

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