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  1. Please copy and paste into the form on the website of your Senators and Representative and share with friends. congress.gov/contact-us

    Dear Senator / Representative -

    I am very upset about the speed with which the Supreme Court ruled on the Alabama case, and I want you to draft legislation to reform the shadow docket process. The shadow docket should not exist.

    At 5:38 p.m. on Monday of last week, the Supreme Court issued a shadow docket ruling allowing Alabama to redraw its congressional maps in a way that dilutes Black voting power. That was 38 minutes after the opposing parties filed their response briefs.

    So the nine Supreme Court Justices sat with 107 pages of briefs, read every sentence attentively, weighed the arguments of each against Alabama's motion, reached a consensus among six of the nine justices, issued an order and a dissent all in 38 minutes?

    The ABA Model Code of Judicial Conduct instructs judges to "accord to every person who has a legal interest in a proceeding, or that person's lawyer, the right to be heard according to law." Note that this is not merely the right to speak at a hearing — it is the right to be heard.

    The judicial system functions only when litigants and the public believe they are receiving a fair hearing.

    The shadow docket is not a fair hearing. Please legislate the end of the ability of the Supreme Court to use the shadow docket.

    #Resist #ResistOfTheDay #SCOTUS #ShadowDocket #SupremeCourt

  2. Republicans on the #SupremeCourt are bringing back the most obscene forms of discrimination in its attacks on #VotingRights, as is shown in this #PoliticalCartoon by Clay Bennett. Those racist Republican judges say that discrimination based on race is wrong unless you can pretend that it is discrimination based on #politics:

  3. @jaykuo

    Term limits are a good idea, but they should also be backed up by appointments made by a more democratic process than Presidential appointment. Otherwise Judges hitting their term limit are just another chance for the President to install yet more of their ideological cronies. There's already too much power consolidated into one person in the form of the POTUS.

    #USPol #SupremeCourt

  4. Reply brief filed and mailed. Normally, I'd say, "Nothing left to do but wait for the #Court to make it's decision." However, the US #SupremeCourt is soon to issue a decision that will likely have a huge impact on my case, so in the next few weeks, I'll be filing a 2-5 page Notice of Supplemental Authority to apply that holding to my case.

    Still, this is a major weight off my shoulders. #law #SCOTUS

  5. Supreme Court Justices Align with Trump’s Solicitor General in Key Cases

    📰 Original title: GOP Supreme Court justices are throwing a 'lifeline' to Trump's 'MAGA-warrior' lawyer: CNN

    🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
    👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️

    View full AI summary: en.killbait.com/supreme-court-

    #politics #supremecourt #trump #solicitorgeneral

  6. With regard to the gutting of the Voting Rights Act all i can say is

    "The last vestiges of the old republic have been swept away!"

    #USA #UnitedStates #Trump #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt