Gorsuch "warns" lower court judges that they can disagree with him, but they are NEVER "free to defy" him.

[Miles Archer]

A growing sense of frustration with some lower courts — articulated in terms that at times sound similar to Trump’s own rhetoric — has crept into a series of opinions this summer from the Supreme Court’s conservative justices as they juggle a flood of emergency cases dealing with Trump’s second term.

“Lower court judges may sometimes disagree with this court’s decisions, but they are never free to defy them,” Justice Neil Gorsuch admonished in an opinion last week tied to the court’s decision to allow Trump to cancel nearly $800 million in research grants.

The rebuke, which was joined by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, flipped the narrative that it is Trump who has pushed legal boundaries with his flurry of executive orders and support for impeaching judges who rule against him. A wave of legal conservatives took to social media to tout Gorsuch’s warning.

“This is now the third time in a matter of weeks this court has had to intercede in a case ‘squarely controlled’ by one of its precedents,” wrote Gorsuch, who was Trump’s first nominee to the high court. (Kavanaugh was Trump’s second.) “When this court issues a decision, it constitutes a precedent that commands respect in lower courts.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-supreme-court-justices-frustrated-080042070.html

[Celerity]

1. Fuck Gorsuch. nt

[Midnight Writer]

2. So now precedents matter, but only precedents approved by the Federalist Society.

I have to admire the integrity of these Federalist Justices. Once they have been bought, they stay bought, no matter how corrupt and foolish it makes them appear.

[orangecrush]

5. This

[Traildogbob]

3. The arrogance

Of absolute power, and the ability to be totally immune from laws, with your position never taken from you.
Lifetime appointments need ended. Especially in the presidency.

[Sneederbunk]

4. The same thing that TSF tells Gorsuch.

[Blue Owl]

6. What a toilet-licking piece of shit

[Efilroft Sul]

7. Federalist Society precedents "command respect" or "demand respect"? Have the guts to say what you really mean, Judge.

This Supreme Court majority has taken a wrecking ball to settled law and foundational law, and it has no room to complain about lower courts' pushback against Trump's rule by decree that they themselves have enabled. Gorsuch, Boof, and their legal conservative hangers-on can go pound sand.

[milestogo]

8. Who?

[tavernier]

9. They truly have forgotten

who THEY work for.

Not a president or a billionaire, but WE THE PEOPLE

[Johonny]

10. Judges should followed the constitution and

Not these anti-constitutionists that want to install a theocracy. Period. Let them move to Afghanistan and judge over the Taliban.

[sinkingfeeling]

11. Bullsh*t. When the SCOTUS can throw away decided law, lower courts can as well.

[mitch96]

12. Ok everybody, Gimme a "Sieg Heil"...

[milestogo]

13. Conservative justices take a group shit on the Constitution.