Judges Plead with Supreme Court for Guidance

“Frustrated federal appeals court judges publicly wrestled Thursday with how to follow vague ‘signals’ from the Supreme Court contained in tersely worded — and often unexplained — orders handed down on the justices’ emergency docket,” Politico reports.

“Some judges on the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals even questioned whether they still had a role to play or were expected, at least in some cases, to simply reiterate the high court’s orders and leave it at that.”