On Tuesday, Justice Sonia Sotomayor denied a bid by an Ecuadorian national to stave off his extradition to that country to face sexual abuse charges. One day earlier, the full court – over a dissent by the three Democratic appointees – cleared the way for the Trump administration to substantially reduce the size of the Department of Education. Both of those actions on the court’s emergency docket, sometimes known as the “s…
The emergency docket goes quiet – for now
July 21, 2025