Conservative Justice Samuel Alito

The practical problem is that there are 680 district court judges. Sometimes they're wrong.

The practical problem is that there are 680 district court judges. Sometimes they're wrong.

The practical problem is that there are 680 district court judges and they are dedicated and they are scholarly and I'm not impugning their motives in any way but you know sometimes they're wrong and the Court of Appeals gives it the back of the hand and then the case comes immediately to us in the context of an emergency application.

The practical problem is that there are 680 district court judges and they are dedicated and they are scholarly and I'm not impugning their motives in any way but you know sometimes they're wrong and the Court of Appeals gives it the back of the hand and then the case comes immediately to us in the context of an emergency application.

And some of us have said, well, we don't think we should do anything in those situations unless it is indisputably clear that the court below was wrong.

And some of us have said, well, we don't think we should do anything in those situations unless it is indisputably clear that the court below was wrong.

The practical problem is that there are 680 district court judges. Sometimes they're wrong.

The practical problem is that there are 680 district court judges and they are dedicated and they are scholarly and I'm not impugning their motives in any way but you know sometimes they're wrong and the Court of Appeals gives it the back of the hand and then the case comes immediately to us in the context of an emergency application.

And some of us have said, well, we don't think we should do anything in those situations unless it is indisputably clear that the court below was wrong.