Supreme Court uses shadow docket to help Trump again
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Only the shadow docket knows:
The Supreme Court on Friday allowed President Donald Trump to temporarily freeze millions of dollars in grants to states for addressing teacher shortages, the administration’s first win at the high court since reclaiming power in January.
The decision was 5-4, with Chief Justice John Roberts and the three liberals dissenting.
As usual in such cases, the Court scarcely provides any legal reasoning in its brief unsigned, but through the Newsmax-to-Alito-chambers pipeline we do get the MALICIOUS COMPLIANCE talking point:
As Jackson points out in here dissent, the sudden termination of grants is in fact causing programs to shut down, and it’s clear that this is not a a harm “of their own making”:
More importantly, the administration’s termination of grants through the mass issuing of boilerplate form letters listing multiple potential reasons for termination without specifying which one allegedly applies to the particular program being terminated is the very definition of an “arbitrary and capricious” action forbidden by statute:
The termination of grants was so obviously arbitrary that the Trump administration refused to defend them on the merits, and its five pet hacks on the Supreme Court rushed in to give them emergency relief anyway. What this portends for the future about all of the illegal DOGE cancellations and impoundments is not good.