An otherwise breezy conversation between the two justices about the routines of the Supreme Court turned more testy when US District Judge Paul Friedman asked about the court’s emergency docket. Kavanaugh said that some of the criticism of the court’s emergency docket is unfair, given that the court must rule one way or the other on whether to grant or deny those cases. “I think it’s because the Supreme Court has shown a willingness to grant these emergency motions,” she said. The back and forth came a week after the court handed down simultaneous emergency docket orders in two touchy political cases. Advertisement Advertisement“Today’s decision shows, not for the first time, how our emergency docket can malfunction,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote in a dissent joined by Jackson.

Source: CNN March 10, 2026 13:21 UTC