Justice Sonia Sotomayor told an audience at the University of Alabama Law School on Thursday that the Supreme Court is fielding an “unprecedented” flood of emergency appeals, a workload shift she said the justices brought on themselves. Her remarks laid bare a growing internal rift over how the Court handles what critics call the “shadow docket,” even as the current term’s biggest decisions keep piling up.
The comments came as the Court’s 2025, 2026 term heads toward its expected June conclusion and as the Trump administration continues to press the justices for fast-track relief on policy disputes blocked by lower courts.
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