Trump admin filed emergency appeal to SCOTUS seeking intervention from lower court rulings

Im not sure its a question of the president or the Judiciary; or, whether there is a reason for the Supreme Court anymore since it is clear any lowly district judge can be used for the same effect.

They have been ruled non essential at this point, its in their court.

Are there 8 that won't allow this act? Signs point to probably...

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Any lawyers know how quickly SCOTUS could respond, or not?

Why’d you light up the SFP bat signal?

The courts have no idea what they are doing. Rule of law is on life support in this country and here they are prepared to tell us that the law won't let the president deport violent criminal illegal aliens. Completely setting aside the nuanced legal arguments (I am a lawyer and have done a bunch of immigration law in the past), you have to understand what this does to the average American's view of the courts. They don't care about the esoteric nooks and crannies of administrative law; they plainly see that the "the Law" in general and its keepers are not serving the stark and obvious goals of the principle of Justice. You can't have an entire nation run by legal scholars. You have to have a law that reflects, at least at a basic level, the values of the people it governs. The arguments for not deporting violent criminals who entered the country illegally are arguments that only very specialized lawyers and judges care about. Meanwhile, the citizenry are having a much more dangerous debate about whether they should keep respecting the law and Article 3 courts in the first place. They can either start applying the law in a way that makes sense to Joe Public or they can become like the other two branches of government: considered essentially dysfunctional and worthless by more than half the population.

Before SFP or someone else tries to jump on it, I concede that there may be a meritorious legal argument based on existing case law to enjoin Trump here. I don't know that. I haven't read the briefs and I'm not going to. My point is that it doesn't matter because larger forces are now at play that will determine whether or not our courts have the moral authority to dispense justice anymore.

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I don't think even SFP can troll us

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SFP is currently out trolling for beignets.

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Completely setting aside the nuanced legal arguments (I am a lawyer and have done a bunch of immigration law in the past), you have to understand what this does to the average American's view of the courts. They don't care about the esoteric nooks and crannies of administrative law; they plainly see that the "the Law" in general and its keepers are not serving the stark and obvious goals of the principle of Justice. You can't have an entire nation run by legal scholars. You have to have a law that reflects, at least at a basic level, the values of the people it governs.

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Well said! Not only on the federal level, but judges at the state and local level are ignoring the will of the people too. Eventually, the average law abiding citizen will begin ignoring their rulings just like people ignore speeding camera tickets. Once we are at that point, then our whole structure of civility is lost. Very dangerous, indeed.

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Meanwhile, the citizenry are having a much more dangerous debate about whether they should keep respecting the law and Article 3 courts in the first place.

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This is why our system is built to withstand the publics emotionality and irrationality. Federalist 10.

Our system is built to ignore the malleable principles and demands of mob mentality.

Ruling by EO will lead to courts Stepping in to rule the validity of the EO.

If you want this stopped, pass proper legislation through congress.

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Our system is built to ignore the malleable principles and demands of mob mentality.

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And yet it's not perfect and could use tweaking.

People can have the power to do something for a long time and it's not a problem because they don't abuse it. It's when corruption leads to an abuse of the power that we look at scaling it back. That's a healthy part of any system of government. We've done it with the police throughout the years, and judges are humans just like cops.