Federal courts including appellate courts, and even SCOTUS can move with lightening speed, when they want to.
If you're in you mid-thirties or older you remember the controversy and drama of the 2000 Presidential election recount in Florida. (Yep, Florida)...
In a decision that shouldn't have surprised anyone the (ultra-conservative) Federalist Society F-Wads on the Supreme Court of these (not so) United States has yet again run the concepts of gun control and public safety through the wood chipper. ...
We have Fascist Federalist Society groomed and approved "Justices" who have issued precedent setting opinions saying things like Money is Speech and Corporations are People.  WTF?  Legal scholars have skewered the reasoning far better than I could ever dream...