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fromABA Journal
2 weeks ago

Chemerinsky: 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.
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fromSlate Magazine
2 weeks ago

The Supreme Court Will Do Four Things This Term That Tell You Everything You Need to Know

The Supreme Court's conservative majority undermines judicial legitimacy by aiding the Trump administration, abusing the shadow docket, and distracting public scrutiny through selective case coverage.
fromABA Journal
2 weeks ago
US politics

Chemerinsky: New SCOTUS term includes cases that will have profound effect on law, American society

US politics
fromAbove the Law
1 month 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
1 month 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
1 month 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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