Trump administration torpedoes SCOTUS with emergency requests and sees surprising success

The Supreme Court ended its term last week but the justices aren t done yet partly due to a legal blitz President Donald Trump has strategically deployed in his second term one that s proven surprisingly effective in advancing his sweeping agenda Lawyers for the Trump administration filed their th urgency application to the Supreme Court Thursday in just a -week period The dizzying pace of applications comes as the administration looks to advance particular of Trump s sweeping framework actions And in plenty of cases the court s - majority has given the administration the green light to proceed JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP ADMIN FROM TARGETING DEMOCRATIC LAW FIRM AFTER ATTORNEYS WARN OF FIRM'S DEMISEThe high court has ruled in Trump s favor in the majority of emergency applications allowing the administration to proceed with its ban on transgender institution members in the military its termination of millions of dollars in Training Department grants and its firing of probationary employees across the federal leadership among multiple other actions Like greater part emergency orders the rulings are often unsigned giving little indication what the justices might be thinking WHO IS JAMES BOASBERG THE US JUDGE AT THE CENTER OF TRUMP'S DEPORTATION EFFORTS Emergency applications and the Supreme Court s responses aren t meant to offer lasting relief But Trump has ascertained success using a move fast and break things strategy to push key requests through the court s so-called shadow docket For context Trump has filed more urgency applications in five months than his predecessors did in years Former President Joe Biden submitted just over his entire term while presidents Obama and George W Bush filed only eight combined during their time in office FEDERAL JUDGE ORDERS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO PAY UNLAWFULLY RESTRICTED USAID FUNDSIn the interim the strategy has allowed him to enforce multiple of the sweeping executive orders he signed upon taking office These orders were met with hundreds of lawsuits across the country and blocked by various lower courts prompting the administration to appeal them again and again through the federal judiciary For now those near-term wins have energized Trump allies allowing them to press forward with a blitz of executive actions and claim win however temporary The approach allows Trump to advance major procedures priorities without relying on a slow-moving Congress