"The appeal was placed on the court's shadow docket, meaning the court can review the case and issue a ruling at any time, without a hearing and without the Republicans' having to explain themselves. The court can give Trump the authority to "temporarily" attack American cities, pending a full hearing at a later date, by which point the devastation from his actions will already be complete."
"For the Supreme Court to issue a ruling that allows the President to send troops into our cities based upon contrived (or even government-provoked) facts...would be a terrible precedent for the Court to set-not just for what it would allow President Trump to do now, but for the even more grossly tyrannical conduct it would allow him and future presidents (assuming we have any) to undertake later."
Donald Trump appealed to the Supreme Court to lift a restraining order that barred him from deploying federal troops in Chicago. The appeal was placed on the court's shadow docket, allowing the court to rule without a hearing and without public explanation. A ruling could temporarily permit domestic troop deployments pending later full hearings, risking immediate harm before review. Georgetown Law professor Steven Vladek warned that a ruling permitting deployments based on contrived or provoked facts would set a dangerous precedent enabling tyrannical future conduct. A three-judge panel with two Trump-appointed judges removed a separate restraining order, previewing potential Supreme Court reasoning.
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