Justice Sotomayor is sounding a major alarm in her dissent yesterday (on public charge), abt conservative control over SCOTUS & how the Trump Administration is skipping over the federal judiciary and running straight to SCOTUS for backing on its most controversial policies. 1/
"It is hard to saw what is more troubling: that the government would seek this extraordinary relief seemingly as a matter of course, or that the court would grant it." nytimes.com/2020/02/21/us/… 2/
A senior Administration official recently told me abt the WH strategy for making policy: “The idea is, don’t waste time trying to anticipate the risk of litigation. Everything will get challenged in the lower courts anyway. We’ll win at the Supreme Court.” newyorker.com/news/daily-com…
