SG to SCOTUS: “District-Court Defiance of this Court’s Decision in California has Grown to Epidemic Proportions”
On a regular basis, district court judges accuse the Trump Administration of flouting the law, and ignoring their orders. The Washington Post counted the up! Yet, at the same time, district court judges are flouting Supreme Court precedent.
Just yesterday, in Boyle (not Moyle), the Supreme Court reversed a district court for not following Wilcox, which “squarely controlled.”
Now, the Solicitor General has filed yet another emergency application. Here, a federal judge in Massachusetts ordered the government to pay out certain DEI grants. Under the Supreme Court’s decision in Department of Education v. California, these disputes belong in the Court of Federal Claims. But lower federal courts disagreed.
The Solicitor General used especially sharp language to describe this lower-court resistance–no, not resistance of President Trump, but resistance of the Supreme Court itself.
This application presents a particularly clear case for this Court to intervene and stop errant district courts from continuing to disregard this Court’s rulings. . . . Notwithstanding this Court’s decision in California, the District of Massachusetts declined to stay a materially identical order. . . . When the go
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