Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito pushed back forcefully at critics decrying the recent "shadow docket" decisions of the highest court in the land.
Alito made the comments during a lecture on the "emergency docket" at the University of Notre Dame on Thursday.
Critics cite three controversial cases where the Supreme Court made emergency rulings with many of the liberal justices on the court issuing vitriolic statements of dissent.
"Our decisions in these three emergency matters have been criticized by those who think we should have decided them the other way, and I have no trouble with fair criticism of the substance of those decisions," Alito said."My complaint concerns all the media and political talk about our sinister shadow docket," he continued. "The truth of the matter is that there was nothing new or shadowy about the procedures we followed in those cases — it's hard to see how we could handle most emergency matters any differently."
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