Sotomayor blames colleagues for slew of Supreme Court emergency appeals

The Supreme Court has itself to blame for the flood of emergency appeals it’s now receiving, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Thursday.

“We’ve done it to ourselves,” Sotomayor said during an appearance at the University of Alabama Law School. “The newspapers are filled with reports about how many emergency motions we are receiving. It's unprecedented in the court's history.”

The Trump administration has filed about 30 emergency applications with the Supreme Court over the past 15 months, winning more than 80 percent of them. Many of those decisions split the court, 6-3, along ideological lines.

Sotomayor attributed the administration victories to what she called a new presumption by several of her colleagues that any time federal government policies are halted, that generates the kind of irreparable harm that justifies the high court stepping in.

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