Federal judges are unloading grievances after Justice Gorsuch's 'unhelpful' rebuke of their own

After U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch penned a searing criticism of a federal judge for defying precedent when the jurist halted the Trump administration 's grant slashes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), federal judges named and unnamed are airing their grievances in a scene of unusual pushback.

The controversy stems largely from Gorsuch's writing on Aug. 21, as SCOTUS, in an emergency order, granted the government a stay of a lower court's "vacating" of the "termination" of nearly $800 million in "various research-related grants."

While Justice Brett Kavanaugh's criticism was more restrained, Gorsuch opened his writing in NIH v. American Public Health Association (APHA) with stern words for district court judges in general — and for Senior U.S. District Judge William