Supreme Court Trump emergency appeals.

A little less than once a week on average since President Donald Trump began his second term, his administration’s lawyers have filed emergency appeals with the Supreme Court. The sequence of events is familiar: A lower court judge blocks a part of the Republican president’s agenda, an appellate panel refuses to put the order on hold while the case continues and the Justice Department turns to the nation’s highest court. The Supreme Court is not being asked to render a final decision but rather to set the rules while the case makes it way through the courts. The administration’s most recent emergency filing arrived May 27, seeking to halt an order by a judge in Boston.