“'The court’s stay decisions can, at times, come across as utterly irrational,'... [she] said during a speech at Yale Law School Monday... 'The court has left confusion in its wake. … There is a serious concern that the Supreme Court’s modern stay practices are having an enormously disruptive and potentially corrosive effect.'”
The "she," BTW: Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/15/ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court-emergency-docket-00873317
Video of Justice Jackson's speech: https://vimeo.com/1183042359
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KBJ is often shortsighted, and she's showing it here too.
The staying of lower court decisions is often the exact opposite, AVOIDING disruption by the lower courts as the process runs its course.
After all, a stayed decision doesn't disrupt. It is stayed. It's allowing a decision to take effect that threatens disruption.
