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fromAbove the Law
3 weeks ago

In A Bold Move, Federal Judges Are Calling Out The Supreme Court's Bullsh*t - Above the Law

Unexplained emergency "shadow docket" Supreme Court orders frequently reverse lower-court rulings in favor of the administration and leave lower judges without guidance.
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fromwww.aljazeera.com
4 weeks ago

Inside the US Supreme Court's 'shadow docket'

President Trump has sharply increased emergency Supreme Court applications, fueling a growing 'shadow docket' of rapid, unsigned rulings with limited explanation and transparency.
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fromAbove the Law
2 weeks ago

Humphrey's Executor Executed In Broad Shadow Docket Slaying - Above the Law

Chief Justice Roberts used the shadow docket to allow President Trump's firing of FTC commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, undermining nearly a century of Humphrey's Executor precedent.
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fromemptywheel
2 weeks ago

Keeping the Courts Open in March Sustained Habeas Corpus - emptywheel

Keeping the government open preserved federal courts, but the Supreme Court has repeatedly favored Trump and is unlikely to stop him.
fromAbove the Law
4 weeks ago

Jonathan 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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