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Why does the government keep showing up at the Supreme Court uninvited?

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Why does the government keep showing up at the Supreme Court uninvited? When the justices meet for their private conference on Friday, April 17, they will consider a petition for review filed by a Catholic preschool in Colorado, challenging its exclusion from that state’s universal preschool program. The preschool contends that the state is discriminating against it based on religion, because Colo...
The Trump administration’s surge in uninvited amicus briefs at the Supreme Court reflects a calculated strategy to shape the legal landscape on contentious issues, leveraging the Court’s conservative majority. The strongest version of this narrative is that the administration is acting as a proactive legal advocate, identifying cases where lower courts have allegedly erred and pushing for clarity on high-stakes questions like religious liberty and capital punishment. The approach is not without ...