@polispandit: Chief Justice John Roberts has almost single-handedly reshaped how the Supreme Court decides cases. The shadow docket was previously reserved for true emergencies like death row cases. Now it’s reserved for everything from ICE being able to discriminate when detaining suspected illegal immigrants to DOGE being able to access Social Security records of millions of Americans and being able to restructure the entire federal workforce. The shadow docket is naturally opaque and outside of the public view. It is a major threat to the institutional credibility and the basic functioning of the Supreme Court and the entire US legal system as other courts and many of us lawyers rely on the legal reasoning included in Supreme Court opinions. Now we know just how bad the shadow docket is after the leak that was published by the New York Times. #news #law #lawyer #supremecourt #constitution
Justice Ketanji Brown gave a brilliant talk on this at Yale & It’s available on YouTube!
2026-04-20 23:54:05
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Tytoofly :
And this is why there needs to be term limits on Supreme Court justices
2026-04-21 11:01:10
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IntellectualHonesty :
IMHO, it’s important to say the “conservative SCOTUS” not just “SCOTUS”.
2026-04-20 18:16:20
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ShaneGR :
Remember when we had respect for SCOTUS? Breaks my heart....
2026-04-21 02:47:46
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sloughts :
using cost to take away democracy is putting capitalism over democracy.
2026-04-21 11:15:54
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OutOfMyDepths :
SCOTUS should be non partisan
2026-04-21 03:22:52
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Verizon Wireless. No Caller ID :
The cost is none of his concern- that’s not what he is supposed to consider at all
2026-04-20 23:28:42
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Kat Comes Back to Life :
The Supreme Court has lost all meaning.
2026-04-21 13:41:14
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chefteachers :
Dems need to run on supreme Court reform and expansion
2026-04-21 22:19:13
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KhristieLP :
Our Supreme Court justices need term limits. Nobody should be appointed for life.
2026-04-21 19:24:24
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Becca :
this country is consistently breaking my heart.
2026-04-21 13:04:21
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Maureen M :
Thank you for bringing this to light to us that are unaware
2026-04-21 12:31:42
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chjApple User463689 :
Justice Brown made a very harsh statement about the shadow docket in a speech
2026-04-23 11:55:14
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mrhere2m :
While recognizing that the Supreme Court is an independent branch of government, its prerogatives must be constrained by the other branches. Congress should pass a law limiting the use of the shadow docket.
2026-04-22 01:16:03
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foxybisme :
TY for sharing this VITAL INFORMATION!!!!!! We need a complete redesign- the old systems no longer works. Time to evolve!!!
2026-04-21 13:57:30
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Vartan Ouzounian :
PS - great information and great synopsis and very revealing
2026-04-21 16:59:11
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aeeliz24 :
Supreme Court justices are people, with prejudices and opinions. They just have much more power to act on them and legal justification.
2026-04-21 14:38:44
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Zbdaqui :
This is infuriating
2026-04-20 20:05:44
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MikemdUSA :
A national tragedy.
2026-04-21 04:52:57
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ofKen :
no transparency
2026-04-20 22:37:18
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ponderosabreeze :
It’s important to shine a light on this.
2026-04-21 12:16:39
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josh :
so, like trump is doing with executive orders, the supreme court is doing with shadow dockets. are theirs more easily re-visited just like executive orders?
2026-04-20 21:29:53
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Marisa Simonetti :
Great summary
2026-04-20 23:53:07
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JustMel :
So as a lawyer. Tell us please what can be done?
2026-04-21 21:30:05
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Daddle :
Anything but transparency
2026-04-21 03:43:24
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