DrWeb<p><strong>Kagan criticizes fellow justices over lack of explanation in recent Supreme Court rulings | PBS News</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/kagan-criticizes-fellow-justices-over-lack-of-explanation-in-recent-supreme-court-rulings?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=PBSNewsHour/magazine/Headlines" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a></p><p><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/kagan-criticizes-fellow-justices-over-lack-of-explanation-in-recent-supreme-court-rulings?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=PBSNewsHour/magazine/Headlines" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a></p><p><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/kagan-criticizes-fellow-justices-over-lack-of-explanation-in-recent-supreme-court-rulings?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=PBSNewsHour/magazine/Headlines" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a></p><blockquote> <p>The Supreme Court has handled a flood of appeals from the Trump administration on its emergency docket, also known as the shadow docket. In the first six months of Trump’s term, the conservatives on the court have sided with him on several key policies, but the decisions have come with little to no explanation for their rationale. Geoff Bennett discussed more with Supreme Court analyst Amy Howe.</p> <p><strong>Read the Full Transcript</strong></p> <p><i>Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors.</i></p> <ul><li> <p><strong>Geoff Bennett:</strong></p><p>Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan is urging her colleagues on the bench to be more transparent as they make more emergency decisions, including those involving President Trump.</p><p>At an event in California, Kagan criticized how the court has handled a flood of appeals from the Trump administration on their emergency docket. The emergency docket, also known as the shadow docket, is a process the Supreme Court uses for urgent cases that are decided quickly with no oral arguments.</p> </li><li> <p><strong>Elena Kagan, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice:</strong></p><p>As we have done more and more on this emergency docket, there becomes a real responsibility that I think we didn’t recognize when we first started down this road to explain things better.</p><p>I think that we should hold ourselves sort of on both sides to a standard of explaining why we’re doing what we’re doing.</p> </li><li> <p><strong>Geoff Bennett:</strong></p><p>In the first six months of President Trump’s second term, the conservatives on the court have sided with him on several key policies, including allowing the administration to continue mass firings at multiple government agencies and to cancel certain federal grants. But those decisions have come with little to no explanation for their rationale.</p><p>For more on all this, we’re joined now by SCOTUSblog co-founder and “News Hour” Supreme Court analyst Amy Howe.</p><p>Always great to have you here.</p> </li></ul></blockquote><p>Continue/Read Original Article Here: <em><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/kagan-criticizes-fellow-justices-over-lack-of-explanation-in-recent-supreme-court-rulings" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Kagan criticizes fellow justices over lack of explanation in recent Supreme Court rulings | PBS News</a></em></p> <p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/america/" target="_blank">#America</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/donald-trump/" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/health/" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/history/" target="_blank">#History</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/justice-kagan/" target="_blank">#JusticeKagan</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/libraries/" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library-of-congress/" target="_blank">#LibraryOfCongress</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/opinion/" target="_blank">#Opinion</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/pbs/" target="_blank">#PBS</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/politics/" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/public-broadcasting-service/" target="_blank">#PublicBroadcastingService</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/resistance/" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/science/" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/scotus/" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump/" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump-administration/" target="_blank">#TrumpAdministration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/united-states/" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a></p>