The Supreme Court has been active on its emergency docket in recent months, halting several lower court injunctions and causing anger from some of those lower court judges.

The justices have increasingly expressed frustration over lower courts continuing to rule counter to their orders on the emergency docket, leading to Justice Neil Gorsuch issuing a stern message in an order allowing the Trump administration to terminate $783 million in DEI-related grants from the National Institutes of Health.

“Lower court judges may sometimes disagree with this Court’s decisions, but they are never free to defy them,” Gorsuch wrote, aiming at lower court judges.

Judges have pushed back on emergency docket rulings

While some lower court judges have taken heed of the justices' orders, others

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