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Last Monday's #SCOTUS summary reversal in Zorn "is a useful illustration of two distinct sets of problems: the problems with the Supreme Court deciding these cases at the cert. stage at all; and the problems with its qualified immunity jurisprudence more generally." Me in today's "One First":

218. Qualified Immunity and th...

in reply to Steve Vladeck

It was a case where the lower court clearly erred, as the record was stark. There wasn't anything else to ask.

So this wasn't a problem, it was a solution. No sense wasting time when there was nothing to argue and nothing to discover.