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“Since May, federal district courts have ruled against the administration 94.3 percent of the time,” Adam Bonica, a political scientist at Stanford, wrote in a June 25 Substack essay. “The Supreme Court, however, has flipped that outcome, siding with the administration in 93.7 percent of its cases. The Supreme Court is now in open conflict with the lower courts over cases involving the Trump administration.”

District court judges “who see the evidence firsthand and hear directly from those affected,” Bonica added, “overwhelmingly find the administration’s actions unlawful. Circuit (Appeals) courts split more evenly (68.2 percent against Trump, 31.8 percent for Trump) but still lean against the administration. Then the Supreme Court — furthest from facts, closest to power — reverses almost automatically.”

The data from the court’s emergency “shadow docket” reveals the staggering result of this double standard. The court intervened to lift 77 percent of lower-court temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions against the Trump administration while lifting 14 percent of those against the Biden administration.

The uneven application is most stark in the court’s handling of nationwide injunctions — a powerful tool lower courts used to block controversial executive policies. The Biden Justice Department repeatedly asked the Supreme Court to limit this practice. The court refused. Yet, just five months into the second Trump administration, the court seized the opportunity in Trump v. CASA to do exactly that, stripping away a key check on executive power precisely when it most benefited its political allies.

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