Liberal justice hammers Supreme Court for fast-tracking emergency docket cases

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson ripped her colleagues for fast-tracking cases on the high court’s emergency docket, saying "it has been noticeably less restrained, especially with respect to pending cases that involve controversial matters."

The emergency docket, sometimes known as the shadow or interim docket, allows parties to ask the Supreme Court to quickly intervene in lawsuits and temporarily pause lower court rulings. The process can take a couple of days, weeks or months...