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Bush and Obama filed 8 emergency applications across their presidencies (16 years.)

The first Trump admin filed 41.

Biden filed 19.

The second Trump admin filed 32 in 2025 alone.

Ok? This is a total non-sequitur.

It indicates one of two things: either the orange fuhrer is being sabotaged and having to defend himself, or that he's doing blatantly illegal things and even a court stacked in his favour by him is trying to reign him in.

I was trying to avoid editorializing by just stating facts that demonstrate the process is beyond some issue of reigning in lower courts and is instead leveraged by politicians to achieve their goals.

I can also editorialize.

In my view, Trump is leveraging the shadow docket to get decisions over turned by members of his own party who don't need to provide detailed (or any) explanations as to why or information about who voted for what.

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