The Trump administration has just filed its *seventh* emergency application with #SCOTUS (this one seeking to put back into place its blocks on certain Department of Education grants). From 2001-17, the George W. Bush and Obama administrations sought emergency relief a total of *eight* times.
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@stevevladeck.bsky.social I don't think such statistics are very meaningful even as folks on both sides of issues try to leverage them.
For example, one side will say Trump is making all of these appeals while the other side says courts are causing Trump to make these appeals.
Yeah, thinks are different now. That's really all that can be said, but people project onto it what the differences are.
