The evil, corrupt MAGA 6 (not so) Supremes need to go! Can we have wholesale impeachment? Maybe prison for the blantently corrupt? These people have been playing God with our rights for so long that now they really believe they're gods. They are about as godlike as those golden calves that were waiting for Moses (Mike) when he came down from that burning bush. I look forward to hearing the phrase 'how the mighty have fallen' someday. Also didn't most of them lie to get appointed? In future they should never be allowed the hedging of Amy Phony Barrett or the smug declaration of Kavanaugh, that 'he likes beer!' I know the Trump appointees bar is low, but that's why we need to flip the Senate as well as the House.
The Supreme Court is supposed to be non-political, non-biased, and make decisions, not change laws that have been made in the long ago past just because a president, or a small group of our citizens don't like it and takes it to the Court.
They refuse to adopt a strict ethics code and abide by it. They take bribes and perks from the wealthy and make their decisions to keep the bribes and perks coming to them.
I'll have more to say about the Justices later but for now, I'll continue with the problems with the Shadow Docket.
The Supreme Court “Shadow Docket,” Explained
The conservative justices are increasingly using a secretive process to issue consequential decisions.
In June 2022, the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, the nearly 50-year-old landmark ruling that the Constitution provides a right to an abortion. While the decision was stunning in its own right, many Court watchers say the justices signaled the death of Roe months earlier when they refused to block a Texas law prohibiting abortions starting at six weeks of pregnancy — a clear violation of Roe.
The decision in that case, Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson, was shocking not only because it signaled a major change to the law but also in how the Court first addressed this issue: through a one-paragraph, unsigned opinion issued without any oral argument, on the Court’s “shadow docket.”
The ruling was one of the more controversial uses of the Supreme Court’s shadow docket, and it made clear that the justices were willing to use this previously obscure procedural mechanism in ways that their predecessors did not. For better or for worse, the shadow docket is now a significant part of Supreme Court jurisprudence.
Most orders from the shadow docket, such as due dates for briefs, have little importance to anyone beyond the litigating parties. However, other shadow docket matters, such as requests to halt a lower court’s orders, can have high stakes. The Court might, for example, reinstate a law after a lower court had stopped its implementation.
Shadow docket cases are sometimes controversial, and the Court’s handling of these hot-button disputes has changed dramatically because of a confluence of events dating back to the 1980s. This change has transformed the shadow docket from an obscure procedural tool to a matter of public disagreement.
Who are these black cloaked, self-righteous cretins? They are political animals, at least 6 of them. Impeach the lot. Should have never allowed the ascension of them.
This Supreme Court majority, animated mostly by extremist Christian nationalist theocrats, has abrogated its fundamental, Constitutionally prescribed role and reduced its normative adjudicative obligation to partisan political rot and hubristic imposition of its subjective beliefs on objective reality itself. It has lost all legitimacy and is flirting with massive nonviolent disobedience of its jaundiced, dangerous and un-American edicts.
Spot on with the reputation laundering angle. The Court's taking this case—where the 14th Amendment is crystal clear—feels less like jurisprudence and more like theater. I've noticed institutions increasingly using "one good decision" to rehabilitate their image, whether it's corporations or governments, and the samestrategy applies here. What worries me is how effective it might be in drowning out scrutiny of the genuinely radical rulings that reshape basic rights and regulatory authority.
Gaslighting? Yup…how long before they blow out the flame and just leave the gas on…
And Brett Kavanaugh: “independence and impartiality” ❓❓❓
No WONDER my coffee bill is going up - I keep spitting it out involuntarily
I’m so sick and tired of this fascistic, extreme, Supreme Court!!
The evil, corrupt MAGA 6 (not so) Supremes need to go! Can we have wholesale impeachment? Maybe prison for the blantently corrupt? These people have been playing God with our rights for so long that now they really believe they're gods. They are about as godlike as those golden calves that were waiting for Moses (Mike) when he came down from that burning bush. I look forward to hearing the phrase 'how the mighty have fallen' someday. Also didn't most of them lie to get appointed? In future they should never be allowed the hedging of Amy Phony Barrett or the smug declaration of Kavanaugh, that 'he likes beer!' I know the Trump appointees bar is low, but that's why we need to flip the Senate as well as the House.
The Supreme Court is supposed to be non-political, non-biased, and make decisions, not change laws that have been made in the long ago past just because a president, or a small group of our citizens don't like it and takes it to the Court.
They refuse to adopt a strict ethics code and abide by it. They take bribes and perks from the wealthy and make their decisions to keep the bribes and perks coming to them.
I'll have more to say about the Justices later but for now, I'll continue with the problems with the Shadow Docket.
The Supreme Court “Shadow Docket,” Explained
The conservative justices are increasingly using a secretive process to issue consequential decisions.
In June 2022, the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, the nearly 50-year-old landmark ruling that the Constitution provides a right to an abortion. While the decision was stunning in its own right, many Court watchers say the justices signaled the death of Roe months earlier when they refused to block a Texas law prohibiting abortions starting at six weeks of pregnancy — a clear violation of Roe.
The decision in that case, Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson, was shocking not only because it signaled a major change to the law but also in how the Court first addressed this issue: through a one-paragraph, unsigned opinion issued without any oral argument, on the Court’s “shadow docket.”
The ruling was one of the more controversial uses of the Supreme Court’s shadow docket, and it made clear that the justices were willing to use this previously obscure procedural mechanism in ways that their predecessors did not. For better or for worse, the shadow docket is now a significant part of Supreme Court jurisprudence.
Most orders from the shadow docket, such as due dates for briefs, have little importance to anyone beyond the litigating parties. However, other shadow docket matters, such as requests to halt a lower court’s orders, can have high stakes. The Court might, for example, reinstate a law after a lower court had stopped its implementation.
Shadow docket cases are sometimes controversial, and the Court’s handling of these hot-button disputes has changed dramatically because of a confluence of events dating back to the 1980s. This change has transformed the shadow docket from an obscure procedural tool to a matter of public disagreement.
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https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/supreme-court-shadow-docket
Who are these black cloaked, self-righteous cretins? They are political animals, at least 6 of them. Impeach the lot. Should have never allowed the ascension of them.
Outstanding observation. All their world is indeed a stage.
This Supreme Court majority, animated mostly by extremist Christian nationalist theocrats, has abrogated its fundamental, Constitutionally prescribed role and reduced its normative adjudicative obligation to partisan political rot and hubristic imposition of its subjective beliefs on objective reality itself. It has lost all legitimacy and is flirting with massive nonviolent disobedience of its jaundiced, dangerous and un-American edicts.
Spot on with the reputation laundering angle. The Court's taking this case—where the 14th Amendment is crystal clear—feels less like jurisprudence and more like theater. I've noticed institutions increasingly using "one good decision" to rehabilitate their image, whether it's corporations or governments, and the samestrategy applies here. What worries me is how effective it might be in drowning out scrutiny of the genuinely radical rulings that reshape basic rights and regulatory authority.
What exactly is the "Shadow Docket"? I see countless references to it but little explanation of how it functions.