Legal immigrants are more worried since the Supreme Court cleared the way for a person’s ethnicity to be a factor in immigration stops by law enforcement.

WASHINGTON — As the Trump administration is routinely striking out in the lower court system, it is increasingly turning to the U.S. Supreme Court for relief — ramping up requests for emergency rulings that often give a temporary green light to President Donald Trump’s policies as longer legal battles play out.

Mahmoud v. Taylor leaves key questions unresolved as districts update policies and brace for potential litigation.

Critics call the expedited rulings, which have become routine in the second Trump administration, the “shadow docket.” The justices have other ideas.

The Georgia Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, leaving in place a lower-court ruling that disqualified her from prosecuting President Donald Trump in the state’s 2020 election interference and racketeering indictment.