bsky.app/profile/npr.... As if we ever forget the bullshit #ShadowDocket OOOoooo Scary Super Secret #Scotus bullshit tool used to #control US. 🥊🥊🥊 🪧 WAKE UP AMERICANS TIME IS SHORT AND YOU SHOULD BE IN THE STREETS! Even I got up at 6:30??!! #REVOLT #ERA #DEI

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Love this deep dive from @joepatrice.bsky.social - Justice Sotomayor absolutely outmaneuvers the #SCOTUS conservative majority on the shadow docket deportation ruling, unpacking a clever legal twist. Details matter! #Sotomayor #ShadowDocket #USPol #ImmigrationLaw #LegalAnalysis

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#politics #scotus #shadowdocket #corruption #dissent #precedent #fasicsm #authoritarianism #trump

Heather Cox Richardson 5/22/25
SCOTUS Destroys Precedent in Shadow Docket. Dissent from the Bench

#politics #fascism #trump #alt #scotus #congressionalpower #republicans #shadowdocket

Heather Cox Richardson 5/22/25
SCOTUS’ Shadow Docket Hands Trump Power over Independent Agencies

Shout out to @dividedargument.bsky.social for the Supreme Court podcast’s funniest moment ever. The shadow docket is all about doing something for no reason. In the latest episode, @williambaude.bsky.social and @epps.bsky.social note SCOTUS’s recent peak shadow docket opinion. The Court did nothing for no reason, and it was still 5-4.

#law #SCOTUS #podcasts #ShadowDocket #contracts

@jamesn

what kills me the most about this, is the decay of the rule of law. precedent used to mean something. imho not every thing the Trump admin is doing *used* to be legal. but now "legal" means "whatever a bare majority of a captured #SCOTUS will countenance". even then, they obscure their craven wiles behind the #ShadowDocket.

and of course, the immunity decision, and the fecklessness of Congress to impeach a lawless president, deflate the remaining checks against absolute power.

In Aug, #SCOTUS used its #ShadowDocket to allow #Arizona, a key swing state, to require proof of citizenship w/ voter registration forms at the request of the #RNC.

But perhaps least known—& yet, most important—was #MooreVHarper, a 2023 ruling in which the court set the stage for the next #BushVGore scenario by holding that the justices themselves would have THE LAST SAY when it comes to questions over state-level #election rules & disputes.

#law #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024 #landslide

Each justice would be required to publicly release their opinions & disclose how they voted on issues considered on an emergency basis, sometimes referred to as the #ShadowDocket. Such decisions, which have become more common & increasingly controversial in recent years, don’t identify how each justice voted.

#law #SCOTUS #ethics #JudicialEthics #Judiciary #JudicialReform #CourtReform #SCOTUSreform #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #USpol

#SupremeCourt Swamped With #EmergencyAppeals, Led by Challenges to #EPA
Away from its main docket, conservative-led court has been willing to intervene in cases early, seeing grave danger when lower #court permits government to implement regulations that industry sees as too burdensome. Because most rules won’t take effect for years, critics question need for high-court intervention so soon.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/supreme-court-sees-wave-of-emergency-appeals-led-by-epa-challenges-d72f2bf6
https://archive.ph/k4DmB
#ShadowDocket #Chevron #ChevronDeference #ChevronDoctrine

@petergleick

That assumption is overridden by every caring observer having months' prior concluded that they're delaying their immunity decision to the last day of their term (before they fuck off for four months' vacation). We also know it's very likely they'll do a remand so it can get punted to next fall, where they won't take up the question until after they know who won the election. #shadowDocket

In asking Smith to respond by Feb 20 at 4PM, the justices did not set a particularly speedy schedule. The court often asks for quicker responses to emergency applications on what critics call its #ShadowDocket. But nothing prevents Smith from filing sooner….

The proceedings against #Trump in the #trial court will remain frozen in the meantime. Unless the justices move quickly, the trial could be pushed into the heart of the 2024 campaign, or even past the election.

#SCOTUS #law #criminal

@GottaLaff

Meh, we always kind of knew they would grant cert, because if they refused he'd be off the ballot. But just because they took it doesn't mean they have to make a meaningful ruling. They can ponder and molder it until the primary has happened, and then declare it moot. Brought to you by the #shadowdocket

@design_law I'm really worried about book banning cases, and the possibility of revisiting Pico (1982) with disastrous consequences. They could decide library books don't matter because there is an internet, and school boards get to decide everything regardless of the procedures which should apply to keep books on shelves. And that prelim inj law is a shambles. #shadowdocket

@realTuckFrumper
Judiciary is all about wielding power. Not serving majority
#shadowdocket
Why approval rating is worse than crap

https://overcast.fm/+5wvnQfFKI

the #court does not expect us to agree with the #principles that are espoused in these #decisions, but they expect us to agree that these are principled decisions. And on the #shadowdocket, when most of these #rulings have no #explanation whatsoever, that really, really complicates the story, especially when, as we've seen over the last five or six years, the #pattern looks far more #nefarious.

#ShelbyCounty #VotingRightsAct
#PurchasedJustice #PlantationCourt #corruptconservativescotus
#CorruptEqualsConservative

The #SCOTUS justices that led the Roe vs Wade overturn are regularly bribed by #billionaires. As you drive across state lines for your #abortion reflect on that. And even imagine for a moment if it were #KetanjiBrownJackson that accepted a #private jet ride to a #luxury $1k/nite fishing vacation in remote #Alaska.

#DeepState #DarkMoney #right #CorruptSCOTUS #corruption #ExposetheTruth #ShadowDocket #StenchontheBench #Republicans #HarlanCrow #PaulSinger #LeonardLeo

Vladeck to Ward: “The court has always said that its legitimacy derives to a large degree from its ability to provide principled justifications for its decision-making [& not be] partisans in robes. Bur when you don’t have principles — or at least when the principles are not articulated [in #ShadowDocket] — it really does nothing to disabuse those who are convinced that the justices are political actors.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/19/supreme-court-stephen-vladeck-interview-00096719

“Finally, as the decision to publish the order in Hawkins while not publishing the orders in James, LWV, SEIU, and Waity demonstrates, the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s practices on its shadow docket are ad hoc. That inconsistency is not limited to publication only; the court also sometimes provides written reasoning and sometimes does not. This, in turn, can lead to questions about the quality of the court’s decisions from case to case.”

18/18

#law #lawfedi #SupremeCourt #ShadowDocket

“Third, the upshot of the substantive changes the court made to the standards for temporary relief pending appeal in LWV, SEIU, and Waity is that the availability of temporary relief pending appeal now appears to hinge almost entirely on the merits—and each individual justice’s prediction about how she will vote on the merits without the benefit of full briefing and argument— rather than the weighing of the equities under the other three Gudenschwager factors.”

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#law #lawfedi #ShadowDocket

“Then, in a third unpublished order in Waity v. LeMaiheu, the court chided the trial court for “completely fail[ing] to understand” and “never consider[ing]” the changes to the stay-pending-appeal standard that were announced in the unpublished LWV and SEIU orders.”

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#law #lawfedi #SupremeCourt #ShadowDocket