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In the #Trump era, #JohnRoberts & the other conservative justices have repeatedly empowered the president through their #ShadowDocket rulings. By contrast, the papers reveal a court wielding those same powers to block #Obama. Justice Samuel A. #Alito Jr. warned that if the court failed to stop the president, its own “institutional legitimacy” would be threatened.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #IllegitimateCourt #SCOTUS
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In the #Trump era, #JohnRoberts & the other conservative justices have repeatedly empowered the president through their #ShadowDocket rulings. By contrast, the papers reveal a court wielding those same powers to block #Obama. Justice Samuel A. #Alito Jr. warned that if the court failed to stop the president, its own “institutional legitimacy” would be threatened.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #IllegitimateCourt #SCOTUS
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In the #Trump era, #JohnRoberts & the other conservative justices have repeatedly empowered the president through their #ShadowDocket rulings. By contrast, the papers reveal a court wielding those same powers to block #Obama. Justice Samuel A. #Alito Jr. warned that if the court failed to stop the president, its own “institutional legitimacy” would be threatened.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #IllegitimateCourt #SCOTUS
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In the #Trump era, #JohnRoberts & the other conservative justices have repeatedly empowered the president through their #ShadowDocket rulings. By contrast, the papers reveal a court wielding those same powers to block #Obama. Justice Samuel A. #Alito Jr. warned that if the court failed to stop the president, its own “institutional legitimacy” would be threatened.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #IllegitimateCourt #SCOTUS
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In the #Trump era, #JohnRoberts & the other conservative justices have repeatedly empowered the president through their #ShadowDocket rulings. By contrast, the papers reveal a court wielding those same powers to block #Obama. Justice Samuel A. #Alito Jr. warned that if the court failed to stop the president, its own “institutional legitimacy” would be threatened.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #IllegitimateCourt #SCOTUS
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When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the #Obama plan, which aimed to regulate #coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” & too big, costly & consequential for the court not to act immediately.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #IllegitimateCourt #SCOTUS #ShadowDocket
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When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the #Obama plan, which aimed to regulate #coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” & too big, costly & consequential for the court not to act immediately.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #IllegitimateCourt #SCOTUS #ShadowDocket
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When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the #Obama plan, which aimed to regulate #coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” & too big, costly & consequential for the court not to act immediately.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #IllegitimateCourt #SCOTUS #ShadowDocket
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When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the #Obama plan, which aimed to regulate #coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” & too big, costly & consequential for the court not to act immediately.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #IllegitimateCourt #SCOTUS #ShadowDocket
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When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the #Obama plan, which aimed to regulate #coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” & too big, costly & consequential for the court not to act immediately.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #IllegitimateCourt #SCOTUS #ShadowDocket
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In public, Chief Justice #JohnRoberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care & caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country & the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. #Obama’s plan to address the global #ClimateCrisis.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #IllegitimateCourt #SCOTUS #ShadowDocket
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In public, Chief Justice #JohnRoberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care & caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country & the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. #Obama’s plan to address the global #ClimateCrisis.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #IllegitimateCourt #SCOTUS #ShadowDocket
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In public, Chief Justice #JohnRoberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care & caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country & the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. #Obama’s plan to address the global #ClimateCrisis.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #IllegitimateCourt #SCOTUS #ShadowDocket
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In public, Chief Justice #JohnRoberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care & caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country & the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. #Obama’s plan to address the global #ClimateCrisis.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #IllegitimateCourt #SCOTUS #ShadowDocket
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In public, Chief Justice #JohnRoberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care & caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country & the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. #Obama’s plan to address the global #ClimateCrisis.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #IllegitimateCourt #SCOTUS #ShadowDocket
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Writing on formal letterhead, but addressing one another by their first names & signing off with their initials, they sound notes of irritation, air grievances & plead for more time. In addition to the usual legal materials, they cite a #blog post &, twice, a #television interview. They sometimes engage with one another’s arguments. But they often simply talk past each other.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #IllegitimateCourt #SCOTUS #ShadowDocket
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Writing on formal letterhead, but addressing one another by their first names & signing off with their initials, they sound notes of irritation, air grievances & plead for more time. In addition to the usual legal materials, they cite a #blog post &, twice, a #television interview. They sometimes engage with one another’s arguments. But they often simply talk past each other.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #IllegitimateCourt #SCOTUS #ShadowDocket
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Writing on formal letterhead, but addressing one another by their first names & signing off with their initials, they sound notes of irritation, air grievances & plead for more time. In addition to the usual legal materials, they cite a #blog post &, twice, a #television interview. They sometimes engage with one another’s arguments. But they often simply talk past each other.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #IllegitimateCourt #SCOTUS #ShadowDocket
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Writing on formal letterhead, but addressing one another by their first names & signing off with their initials, they sound notes of irritation, air grievances & plead for more time. In addition to the usual legal materials, they cite a #blog post &, twice, a #television interview. They sometimes engage with one another’s arguments. But they often simply talk past each other.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #IllegitimateCourt #SCOTUS #ShadowDocket
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Writing on formal letterhead, but addressing one another by their first names & signing off with their initials, they sound notes of irritation, air grievances & plead for more time. In addition to the usual legal materials, they cite a #blog post &, twice, a #television interview. They sometimes engage with one another’s arguments. But they often simply talk past each other.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #IllegitimateCourt #SCOTUS #ShadowDocket
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The NYT has obtained those papers & is now publishing them, bringing the origins of the Supreme Court’s #ShadowDocket into the light.
The 16 pages of memos, exchanged in a five-day dash, provide an extraordinarily rare window into the court, showing how the justices talk to one another outside of public view.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #IllegitimateCourt #SCOTUS
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/18/us/politics/supreme-court-shadow-docket-papers.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
At the time, the ruling seemed like a curious one-off. But that single paragraph turned out to be a sharp & lasting break. That night marks the birth, many legal experts believe, of the court’s modern “#ShadowDocket,” the secretive track that #SCOTUS6 has since used to make many major decisions, including granting #Trump more than 20 key victories on issues from immigration to agency power.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #IllegitimateCourt
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At the time, the ruling seemed like a curious one-off. But that single paragraph turned out to be a sharp & lasting break. That night marks the birth, many legal experts believe, of the court’s modern “#ShadowDocket,” the secretive track that #SCOTUS6 has since used to make many major decisions, including granting #Trump more than 20 key victories on issues from immigration to agency power.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #IllegitimateCourt
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At the time, the ruling seemed like a curious one-off. But that single paragraph turned out to be a sharp & lasting break. That night marks the birth, many legal experts believe, of the court’s modern “#ShadowDocket,” the secretive track that #SCOTUS6 has since used to make many major decisions, including granting #Trump more than 20 key victories on issues from immigration to agency power.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #IllegitimateCourt
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At the time, the ruling seemed like a curious one-off. But that single paragraph turned out to be a sharp & lasting break. That night marks the birth, many legal experts believe, of the court’s modern “#ShadowDocket,” the secretive track that #SCOTUS6 has since used to make many major decisions, including granting #Trump more than 20 key victories on issues from immigration to agency power.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #IllegitimateCourt
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At the time, the ruling seemed like a curious one-off. But that single paragraph turned out to be a sharp & lasting break. That night marks the birth, many legal experts believe, of the court’s modern “#ShadowDocket,” the secretive track that #SCOTUS6 has since used to make many major decisions, including granting #Trump more than 20 key victories on issues from immigration to agency power.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #IllegitimateCourt
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But this time, the justices were sprinting to block a major presidential initiative. By a 5-to-4 vote along #partisan lines, the order halted President Barack #Obama’s Clean Power Plan, his signature #environmental policy. They acted before any other court had addressed the plan’s lawfulness. The decision consisted of only legal boilerplate, without a word of reasoning.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #IllegitimateCourt
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For two centuries, the court had generally handled major cases at a stately pace that encouraged care & deliberation, relying on written briefs, oral arguments & in-person discussions. The justices composed detailed opinions that explained their thinking to the public & rendered judgment only after other courts had weighed in.
#law #LegalEthics #SCOTUS #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #IllegitimateCourt
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The Inside Story of 5 Days That Remade #SCOTUS
Secret memos obtained by The NYT illuminate the origins of the court’s now-routine “#ShadowDocket” rulings on presidential power.
Just after 6PM on a February evening in 2016, the Supreme Court issued a cryptic, one paragraph ruling that sent both #climate policy & the court itself spinning in new directions.
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #IllegitimateCourt
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/politics/supreme-court-shadow-docket.html?unlocked_article_code=1.b1A.W0_1.54-PmsieNhyB&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
#SupremeCourt lets #Trump strip protections from >300,000 #Venezuelan immigrants
#SCOTUS on Friday allowed the Trump admin to strip #legal protections from >300k Venezuelan immigrants.
The *justices* issued an emergency order, which will last as long as the court case continues, putting on hold a lower-court ruling by US District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco that found the admin had wrongly ended #TPS for the Venezuelans.
#law #ActivistCourt
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-venezuela-immigrants-e0277e3b373818945f50a48bc71b8583?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-03-Immigration -
Once again, our #IllegitimateCourt is destroying our rights and ensuring our country sprints toward fascism.
Fuck the court.
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#IllegitimateCourt #SCOTUS #SupremeEmbarrassment
The Supreme Court’s “Unanimous” Trump Ballot Ruling Is Actually a 5–4 Disaster https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/03/supreme-court-trump-colorado-ballot-disaster.html
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#ProPublica strikes again.
"Crow’s lawyer argues tht #Congress has no authority to probe the #GOP donor’s generosity & doing so violates a constitutional separation of powers between Congress & the Supreme Court." HA! WTF?
#SCOTUS #corruption is real. #IllegitimateCourt #HarlanCrow #DarkMoney #ClarenceThomas #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.propublica.org/article/harlan-crow-slashed-tax-bill-clarence-thomas-superyacht -
today, the "supreme court" confirmed discrimination is the law in the USA
#HumanRights #GayRights #LGBTRights #Discrimination #RogueCourt #IllegitimateCourt #Inequality #SCOTUS https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2023/jun/30/supreme-court-rulings-latest-student-debt-relief-lgbtq-rights-news-biden-trump?fbclid=IwAR1-q5qgTcBu4KbL3aBRFnLef6Y52qCeHZzNxp3F_brysbbVqs4-BCgHn88 -
#SenatorWhitehouse & others are calling for an IRS investigation.
"Leonard Leo’s lavish lifestyle appears to be his reward fr helping anonymous rt-wing #billionaires capture #SCOTUS "
People need to understand the level of elite donor manipulation is an operation, not a coincidence.
...the #BarreSeid bucket could blow another $30 million promoting lies about fossil fuels alone. And on & on & on."
#DarkMoney #corruption #partisanpolitics #IllegitimateCourt #LeonardLeo
https://newrepublic.com/article/172480/barre-seid-leonard-leo-dark-money-king