Adam Liptak
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 30 Apr
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The court has often interceded when it needs to move very fast, like in a death penalty case when someone's about to be put to death, or an election dispute where you need to know by Tuesday what the answer is.
And also occasionally in discrete areas like abortion, the court has issued emergency orders, but it's not used the emergency docket to address major national policy initiatives.
The second thing I'd say, or the defenders of these orders would say, is that they're temporary.
They're not meant to conclusively resolve the case.
They're just holding the status quo while the case moves to the lower courts, comes back to the Supreme Court.
So they're nominally temporary, but as a practical matter, very often they're not only consequential but conclusive, finally resolving the matter.
Because if the court says you can deport someone or you can deport hundreds of thousands of people or you can withhold aid money or you can fire thousands of people.
Yeah, these are not hypotheticals.
These are actual cases.
Those are very hard to undo.
You can say it's temporary.
But if they imagine it goes back to the court and imagine the court says, you know what?
Actually, the Trump administration was wrong.
It's very hard to undo those rulings.
So these documents concern a case case.
in 2016 arising from President Obama's Clean Power Plan.
The Clean Power Plan, you may recall, was Obama's attempt late in his second term to do something about climate change.
He'd failed to get legislation through Congress.
He instructed the EPA to issue regulations, and these regulations would fundamentally shift the American power system away from coal
and toward cleaner sources of energy.
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