Washington, March 3 -- Congressman Hank Johnson issued the following press release:

"The law is supposed to be predictable and consistent," said Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence and the Internet. "Yet the Roberts Court once again has withheld that reliability from the American people. The unprecedented decision to grant extraordinary emergency relief in Malliotakis v. Williams serves only to highlight the inconsistency and unpredictability that has come to define the Court's emergency docket. Like too many other emergency docket decisions before it, this case was expedited without rigorous briefing and oral argument, yi...