#shadow-docket
#shadow-docket
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fromwww.mediaite.com
3 weeks agoIt Pains Me to Say This': Former A.G. Eric Holder Urges Democrats to Reform Broken' Supreme Court Once Back in Power
It's only when you get to the Supreme Court that you see these problems start to arise. And it's the use of, this overuse of the shadow docket. You know, by taking these cases and decided them, essentially deciding them, without hearing any oral argument, with any adequate briefing. You know, deciding these really important matters in that way challenges the legitimacy of the court and does an untold amount of damage to the fabric, legal fabric of this nation.
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fromABA Journal
1 month agoChemerinsky: New SCOTUS term includes cases that will have profound effect on law, American society
The Supreme Court's October 2025 term will address numerous challenges to presidential authority, including cases on tariffs, executive removals, and emergency powers.
fromAbove the Law
3 months agoJonathan Turley Challenges Justice Jackson To Calvinball In Most Embarrassing Display Yet - Above the Law
Citing the fictional sport from the watershed comic strip Calvin & Hobbes, Jackson wrote 'Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.' As a dissent in yet another shadow docket decision allowing the administration to take arbitrary and capricious action free from the constraints of either statute or judicial oversight, the Calvinball analogy hit home.
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