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    "parsed_content": "Supreme CourtMail-In VotingMissouri MapThe Justices\u2019 PapersBallroom ConstructionBan on Transgender TroopsTerm TakeawaysAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTJustice Jackson Calls Emergency Docket \u2018Potentially Corrosive\u2019Hours after fielding the Trump administration\u2019s latest emergency application, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson gave a speech urging the Supreme Court to rethink such requests.Listen \u00b7 5:04 min Share full articleJustice Jackson at the Library of Congress last year. In a speech on Thursday, she criticized what she called the Supreme Court\u2019s willingness to jump into cases before lower courts had decided them.Credit...Pool photo by Jacquelyn MartinBy Abbie VanSickleReporting from WashingtonSept. 24, 2026See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra m\u00e1s de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de b\u00fasqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday criticized the Supreme Court\u2019s use of its emergency docket, saying that the court\u2019s willingness to fast-track high-profile cases posed a threat to its standing among the American public.The court, she said in a speech, \u201ccannot expect the public to have faith in our judicial system if, without clear explanation, we are consistently greenlighting harmful acts\u201d without a full hearing.Justice Jackson told the audience that there was \u201ca serious concern\u201d that the Supreme Court\u2019s handling of its emergency docket was \u201chaving an enormously disruptive and potentially corrosive effect\u201d on the federal court system.Her remarks came during an annual lecture hosted by the University of the District of Columbia\u2019s law school aimed at honoring a commitment to civil rights and civil liberties. The crowd of several hundred people included students from the historically Black law school.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTHer speech came about two hours after she had fielded the latest high-profile emergency application. That request came from the Trump administration, asking the Supreme Court to allow it to continue to rapidly deport immigrants to countries other than their own.Justice Jackson did not speak directly about that case, but she pointed to other recent emergency rulings, saying that the court was now routinely using \u201ctruncated procedures\u201d to weigh in on consequential cases.Sign up for the Docket newsletter. Adam Liptak helps you make sense of legal developments in a turbulent time. Get it sent to your inbox.Unlike the court\u2019s routine so-called merits docket, where cases are considered by the justices over months and decided only after extensive written briefs and oral arguments, emergency docket cases are often decided quickly and without full briefing or argument.The Trump administration has flooded the court with applications for emergency action \u2014 about 30 in President Trump\u2019s first year in office alone. The court has granted many of those requests, allowing Mr. Trump to implement policies, technically on a temporary basis, while their legality is considered by lower courts.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTAll three of the court\u2019s liberal justices have criticized the court\u2019s handling of its emergency docket, which critics call \u201cthe shadow docket,\u201d but Justice Jackson\u2019s speech on Thursday, which focused entirely on the subject, was particularly pointed.Got a news tip about the courts?\u00a0If you have information to share about the Supreme Court or other federal courts, please contact us.See how to send a secure message at nytimes.com\/tipsIt came after Justice Elena Kagan, another liberal justice, said publicly this summer that she thought the court had improved how it handled emergency requests, noting that more of the court\u2019s emergency decisions now included some reasoning.Justice Jackson nodded to the court\u2019s recent emergency rulings, saying that the court \u201cbegan to explain more.\u201d She noted that it was \u201cstill not the full kind of explanation\u201d given on the court\u2019s regular docket, but added that she thought it was \u201ca good and positive development.\u201dStill, Justice Jackson urged the court to reimagine how to handle the emergency docket, including coming up with a better system to decide whether to take up emergency requests and when.She criticized what she called the court\u2019s willingness to jump into cases before lower courts had decided them. The court\u2019s \u201cnew approach,\u201d she said, \u201coften lacks any acknowledgment of the harms that follow when the Supreme Court consistently and casually divests the lower courts\u201d of their authority.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTAppointed by President Joseph R. Biden Jr. in 2022, Justice Jackson is the court\u2019s newest member but has emerged as perhaps the most vocal public critic of its practices \u2014 in speeches and also in her written opinions.She noted on Thursday that the court received thousands of normal petitions for review each year. Typically, it agrees to hear only about 60 of those. She worried aloud that the court could be perceived as failing to deliver equal justice.\u201cIf we\u2019re not careful, the emergency docket can and will become an end run around the standard review process, a special avenue that certain privileged litigants can use selectively,\u201d Justice Jackson said. \u201cWhy is it that one party should get a fast pass to the Supreme Court of the United States when so many other parties are queued up, waiting patiently for the court\u2019s attention?\u201dShe said that \u201cwhile it will sometimes be hard,\u201d the justices could \u201cpatiently wait our turn\u201d to take up cases once they had made their way through the lower courts.The justice\u2019s words were greeted with cheers and an ovation.Across town, three of her conservative colleagues \u2014 Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh \u2014 had been invited to dine on sea bass and ice cream at a White House state dinner for President Xi Jinping of China.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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