Mastodawn

After watching John Oliver discuss the #shadowdocket of the #SupremeCourt yesterday, I want to read critiques of this process.

I am more convinced that the Supreme Court's expanded use of the shadow docket with Trump's encouragement is evidence of a poor separation of powers. It is a bad look and bad practice to take so many cases this way, especially with a Court that has been purchased with dark money. (Fuck you, #LeonardLeo !!!)

https://www.culawreview.org/journal/the-shadow-dockets-shadowy-history-and-an-argument-for-its-alternation

The Shadow Docket's Shadowy History and an Argument for its Alteration — Columbia Undergraduate Law Review

Whether it was a dispute over a Texas abortion law in 2022 or a fight over federal research grants in 2025, shadow dockets have been heavily utilized recently to make a variety of decisions. The shadow docket, also known as the emergency docket, refers to a different pathway cases may take when ente

Columbia Undergraduate Law Review

Angela G 7h ago

Please copy and paste into the form on the website of your Senators and Representative and share with friends. https://www.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

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Wes Fryer 1d ago

#StrictScrutiny [PODCAST] 🎙️ "How SCOTUS is Waging Electoral Warfare"

https://podcasts.wesfryer.com/episode/wd5gzAKzlnrD3YeXLeTX

#podcommons #ConCW #CultureWar #SupremeCourt #ShadowDocket #democracy #abortion

Marc Scheffel 2d ago

#hantavirus #ebola #WHO #measles #rfkjr #genocide #Defundingfema #defundingscience #iran #watercrisis #massstarvationingaza #venezuela #cuba #datacenters #Gasturbines #inflation #concentrationcamps #jimcrow2 #ICE #cryptocurrency #billionairetaxbreaks #jan6pardons #shadowdocket #drillbabydrill #inflation #MediaControl #churchandstate #SchoolLunch #bookBans #usaidcuts #EpsteinFiles

“Sure, I disagree with some of his policies but he has the country going in the right direction!”

Which direction is that you racist, sexist, homophobic, and willfully ignorant fascist collaborators?

Kevin Stevens May 12

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)

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DoomsdaysCW May 12

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

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

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Class Wario May 11

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

Kevin Stevens Apr 27

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

The Supreme Court Killed the Clean Power Plan — and Public Confidence

Chief Justice John Roberts launched a practice that denies public’s insight into the court’s reasoning

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Hawkeye Apr 25

How the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket Upended Climate Policy The New York Times

The Times has uncovered internal documents indicating a significant alteration in the court's operational procedures, a decision that has been criticized as both hasty and deficient..

#SCOTUS #ShadowDocket

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