Justice Sonia Sotomayor said a surge in emergency appeals to the Supreme Court is largely the court’s own doing.
“We’ve done it to ourselves,” she said during an April 9 event at the University of Alabama School of Law.
Sotomayor Blames Colleagues for Flood of Emergency Appeals
Over the past 15 months, the Trump administration submitted about 30 emergency requests to the Supreme Court, succeeding in more than 80 percent of them.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks in the Great Hall of the Supreme Court in Washington on Dec. 18, 2023. Jacquelyn Martin/Getty Images
