Kegger Kavanaugh defends Supreme Court's terse emergency docket orders [View all]

Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Thursday defended the way the Supreme Court is handling the flood of emergency cases that has reached its docket during President Donald Trump’s administration, pushing back on mounting criticism that the court is often resolving those disputes with little to no explanation.

Kavanaugh’s remarks to a group of judges and lawyers meeting in Kansas City, Missouri, came as the court has faced growing criticism for issuing emergency orders with so little explanation that similar controversies boomerang back weeks later.

Most of the court’s emergency cases have involved policies pursued by Trump, including on immigration and the firing of leaders at independent federal agencies.

“We have written a lot more than we’ve written in the past on the interim orders docket,” Kavanaugh said, noting the court’s blockbuster opinion last month that limited the use of nationwide court orders blocking the president’s policies. “We’ve been doing certainly more written opinions on the interim orders docket than we’ve done in the past.”

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