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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said it\u2019s \u201cabsolutely a legitimate question\u201d as to whether lower court judges should defy the Supreme Court and its decades of precedent when it comes to emergency docket decisions. <\/p>\n

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U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel of the District of South Carolina was interviewing Jackson at the American Law Institute earlier this month when he said: \u201cI have found, as a district judge, it mystifying at times, where an emergency docket decision of maybe just two or three pages, appears to countermand longstanding Supreme Court precedent. Are we to apply the brief, the short stay decision, or denial of stay? Or are we to follow 50 years of precedent? It\u2019s a perplexing thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jackson said it is \u201cabsolutely a legitimate question and a legitimate concern.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, what is a lower court judge to do after the Supreme Court has intervened early on to tell everyone who\u2019s likely to win the case?\u201d Jackson continued, later adding it\u2019s \u201cmystifying\u201d that the Supreme Court could stay a decision even after a lower court judge \u201cmade findings of fact\u201d or held hearings.<\/p>\n

Jackson\u2019s comments are especially insane given that there is nothing new about lower courts being bound by the Supreme Court\u2019s guidance (including an emergency order). But this wasn\u2019t the only time Jackson was seemingly unaware how the court she sits on works.<\/p>\n

The high court ruled 6-3 in Louisiana v. Callais<\/em> that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is designed to enforce the Constitution\u2019s prohibition on intentional racial discrimination, but not force states to engage in race-based discrimination by creating majority-minority districts. The court held that Louisiana\u2019s congressional map that had two majority-Black districts was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. <\/p>\n

Shortly after, the Supreme Court released an\u00a0\u00a0in an 8-1 decision that, as described by The Federalist\u2019s Shawn Fleetwood, would \u201cfast-track the transmission of its decision to the lower courts rather than wait 32 days, as per normal custom.\u201d The decision was made \u201cin accordance with existing SCOTUS rules,\u201d as Fleetwood pointed out. The decision allowed Louisiana to move toward new maps mid-election cycle rather than using the current, unconstitutional maps.<\/p>\n

Jackson issued a dissent claiming the court\u2019s 8-1 decision \u201chas spawned chaos in the State of Louisiana.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cNot content to have decided the law, [the Supreme Court] now takes steps to influence its implementation,\u201d Jackson wrote. \u201cThe Court unshackles itself from both constraints today and dives into the fray. And just like that, those principles give way to power. Because this abandon is unwarranted and unwise, respectfully, I dissent.\u201d <\/p>\n

Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, wrote a concurring opinion that said Jackson\u2019s charges \u201ccannot go unanswered.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alito said that Jackson\u2019s position \u201cwould require that the 2026 congressional elections in Louisiana be held under a map that has been held to be unconstitutional.\u201d Alito added Jackson\u2019s dissent offers one \u201ctrivial\u201d reason for her proposed course of action, and another that is \u201cbaseless and insulting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alito points out that Jackson, in her claim that the court was appearing \u201cpartial,\u201d failed to explain \u201cwhy [her] insistence on unthinking compliance with [Supreme Court] Rule 45.3\u2019s default rule does not create the appearance of partiality (by running out the clock) on behalf of those who may find it politically advantageous to have the election occur under the unconstitutional map.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe dissent goes on to claim that our decision represents an unprincipled use of power. \u2026 That is a groundless and utterly irresponsible charge,\u201d Alito wrote. \u201cWhat principle has the Court violated? The principle that Rule 45.3\u2019s 32-day default period should never be shortened even when there is good reason to do so? The principle that we should never take any action that might unjustifiably be criticized as partisan?\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to ignore that Jackson is treating standard functions of the court as possibly illegitimate whenever they happen to produce an outcome she dislikes. <\/p>\n

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