#shadow-docket — Public Fediverse posts

The potus is a joke. Congress is a joke. The scotus is a joke. None of these jokes are funny in the least.
https://youtu.be/qKeq4CEZtm8?si=oG3vnLTiyoICUT6e
#scotus #shadowdocket #corrupt #traitors #corruption #treason #news #history #uspol #uspolitics

The Shadow Docket: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

May 11, 2026

"John Oliver discusses the shadow docket – a shortcut to the Supreme Court which is rapidly advancing the Trump administration’s agenda. Plus, some fun and unexpected facts about turtles [And #MilitaryDolphins]! You know, to spice things up."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKeq4CEZtm8

#USPol #LastWeekTonight #JohnOliver #comedy #TV #SCOTUSIsCompromised #ShadowDocket #EmergencyRuling #Fascism #Authoritarianism #TrumpSucks #EmergencyDocketAbuse #EmergencyDockets #SCOTUS

Can the #supremecourt itself be sued for misuse of the #ShadowDocket , specifically its failure to meet the threshold of demonstrable “irreparable harm” to the petitioner? (In cases of #trump admin seeking shadow docket blessing or reprieve, refusal would typically be continued status quo, not loss.)

#scotus would rule for itself, were the matter brought, but the intellectual seed would be planted, and could even serve as grounds to remove justices who have abused the doctrine.

#uspol

It’s time for the court to close the “shadow docket” and return to its historic reliance on step-by-step judicial processes that ensure full deliberation and the kind of principled, transparent reasoning the public needs to see if it is going to trust the court going forward.
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/the-supreme-court-killed-the-clean?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
#scotus #ussupremecourt #johnroberts #shadowdocket #epa #cleanpowerplan #cpp #climatechange #internalmemo #carbondioxide #powerplant #co2reductions #regulations #2015 #federaltaxincentives

Leaked memos offer glimpse to how John Roberts puts his thumb on the shadow docket

As OA puts it, who else would protect the monocled man?

https://www.patreon.com/posts/leaked-memos-and-156236724

NYT has the memos

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/18/us/politics/supreme-court-shadow-docket-papers.html

#OpeningArguments #OpenArgsPod #podcast #USpol #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #ShadowDocket

Hypocritically, The Origin Of The Supreme Court’s ‘Shadow Docket’ Was An Attempt To Curb Executive Power

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/22/hypocritically-the-origin-of-the-supreme-courts-shadow-docket-was-an-attempt-to-curb-executive-power/

Dark Shadows

#ShadowDocket

https://boingboing.net/2026/04/22/tom-the-dancing-bug-the-secret-origin-of-justice-robertss-shadow-docket.html

https://www.contrariannews.org/p/trump-mcconnell-roberts-thats-not?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
#uspol #uspolitics #fascism #corrupt #treason #corruption #scotus #heritagefoundation #project2025 #trump #trumpstein #trumpsteinclass #trumpcrimefamily #AlexAronson @kimlanelaw Scheppele #mcconnell #mitchmcconnell #federalistsociety #leonardleo #johnroberts #scotus #shadowdocket #judicialbranch #SenateJudiciaryCommittee #usattorney #darinsmith #DanBishop #PhillipWilliamsJr #wyoming #northcarolina #alabama #alvinbragg #specialcouncil #jacksmith #alinahabba #newjersey

As Lauren Egan notes, with upcoming empty seats on the Supreme Court anticipated, "the possibility of a Supreme Court confirmation fight has been the subject of rampant chatter among the Washington political class."

#JohnRoberts #SupremeCourt #RobertsCourt #transparency #accountability #corruption #WhiteChristianNationalism #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #OpusDei #ShadowDocket
/7

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-arent-buying-reports-of-justice-samuel-alito-staying-put-supreme-court-scotus-retirements-clarence-thomas

"Remember when Amy Coney Barrett said of her colleagues 'we’re not a bunch of partisan hacks?' Well, they are a bunch of partisan hacks. And the number one partisan hack is John Roberts."

~ Norman Ornstein

#JohnRoberts #SupremeCourt #RobertsCourt #transparency #accountability #corruption #WhiteChristianNationalism #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #OpusDei #ShadowDocket
/6

https://xcancel.com/NormOrnstein/status/2045843172828295264#m

(continued from /4)

"whatever was necessary to advance a conservative, pro-business, pro-religious cultural agenda seemingly dictated by The Federalist Society, the Koch Brothers network of billionaires, and arch-conservative Catholic Leonard Leo."

#JohnRoberts #SupremeCourt #RobertsCourt #transparency #accountability #corruption #WhiteChristianNationalism #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #OpusDei #ShadowDocket
/5

"In conjunction with other conservative justices (notably Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and Kennedy), Roberts began reshaping long-standing jurisprudence by expanding and contracting the 'strike zone' at will—" (continued in /5)

#JohnRoberts #SupremeCourt #RobertsCourt #transparency #accountability #corruption #WhiteChristianNationalism #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #OpusDei #ShadowDocket
/4

"The memos leaked to the NYTimes confirm what many court observers have long believed: that Roberts is manipulating the rules of the Court to advance his personal and political beliefs, which are centered around a conservative, pro-business, white Christian worldview."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#JohnRoberts #SupremeCourt #RobertsCourt #transparency #accountability #corruption #WhiteChristianNationalism #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #OpusDei #ShadowDocket
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/john-roberts-isnt-calling-balls-and

"The scoop highlights the conservative justices’ brazen disregard for their own rules — both then and now — and the ways in which they are now ignoring the concerns that allegedly animated their action a decade ago."

The NY Times report by Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak is linked below.

#JohnRoberts #SupremeCourt #RobertsCourt #transparency #accountability #corruption #WhiteChristianNationalism #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #OpusDei #ShadowDocket
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/politics/supreme-court-shadow-docket.html

"On Saturday, The New York Times published a story about the U.S. Supreme Court’s actions a decade ago blocking the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan on what has become known as the shadow docket."

~ Chris Geidner

#JohnRoberts #SupremeCourt #RobertsCourt #transparency #accountability #corruption #WhiteChristianNationalism #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #OpusDei #ShadowDocket
/1

https://www.lawdork.com/p/the-2016-memos-roberts-supreme-court-mess

Inside the Supreme Court’s Risky New Way of Doing Business - The New York Times

> At this point, i think we can all agree that the US Supreme court is totally compromised. The whole American model is compromised with no obvious way on how to fix it.

#scotus #brokengovernance #ShadowDocket #usa #corruptjudiciary #law #legal #courts

PAYWALL ahead. Use an archive if you cant access it. (https://archive.vn/J8Tmw)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/politics/supreme-court-shadow-docket.html

Jim Roberts: "This article makes it painfully but obviously clear how much damage Chief Justice John Roberts has done to the institution of the nation’s highest court. History will take account":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/politics/supreme-court-shadow-docket.html?unlocked_article_code=1.b1A.laJB.4SzT3P7L6E52&smid=nytcore-ios-share
copy: @renewedresistance #SupremeCourt #ShadowDocket #politics

The now-frequent use of the "shadow docket" to quickly solve any politically charged case in the conservative direction, without proper judicial review and often when no real emergency exists, proves the point that the conservative justices were ALWAYS the activist judges the right has always complained of.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/politics/supreme-court-shadow-docket.html

#supremecourt #law #scotus #johnroberts #supremecourtoftheunitedstates #legal #shadowdocket #politics

"Secret memos obtained by The New York Times illuminate the origins of the Supreme Court's now-routine #ShadowDocket rulings on presidential power":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/politics/supreme-court-shadow-docket.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur
#InvestigativeJournalism #media #lawfare #injustice #SCOTUS

Another one for today--Important reporting.

[NYTimes-Gift article]: The Shadow Papers. The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

Secret memos obtained by The New York Times illuminate the origins of the court’s now-routine “shadow docket” rulings on presidential power. By Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/politics/supreme-court-shadow-docket.html?unlocked_article_code=1.b1A.qaO5.frjmIJ5FCjM1&smid=nytcore-ios-share

#scotus #shadowdocket #justiceroberts #johnroberts #climatechange #globalwarming

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

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

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

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

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

#GiftArticle

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