The rules don’t apply to Trump on the Court’s “shadow docket.”
On Friday, the Supreme Court handed down a brief order permitting DOGEy, the enigmatic White House entity that billionaire Elon Musk previously ran, to access a wide range of sensitive information kept by the Social Security Administration — including many individuals’ bank account numbers and medical records.
All 3 of the Court’s Democrats dissented from the Court’s order in Social Security Administration v. AFSCME.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissenting opinion primarily focuses on her concerns over the rapidity with which the Court hears Trump cases, and she argues that her Republican colleagues appear to have abandoned an important limit on the Court’s authority (or, at least, that they’ve done so when the Trump administration asks them to prematurely get involved with a case).