All posts tagged "Shadow Docket"

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson tore into her Supreme Court colleagues for repeatedly clearing the way for Trump administration policies through rushed emergency orders.

Jackson made the remarks during an annual civil rights and civil liberties lecture at the University of the District of Columbia's law school, The Washington Post and The New York Times reported Thursday.

The justice warned the audience there was "a serious concern" that the court's handling of emergency requests was "having an enormously disruptive and potentially corrosive effect" on the federal judiciary, according to The Times....

A legal expert is sounding the alarm on a Trump move that seeks the Supreme Court's help with a "nasty" power grab.

During an episode of Talking Feds, former U.S. Attorney Harry Litman warned that the Trump administration is seeking to take away states' control of upcoming elections after filing an emergency application with the Supreme Court through the Solicitor General.

"It's their first effort to get the Supreme Court to weigh in on one of Trump's really pernicious ham-handed efforts to just wrest control of the voting process from states," Litman said. "It's about as nasty as it goes."...

The Supreme Court has started showing signs that justices are aware of the growing public frustration around its shadow docket, a New York Times reporter said Wednesday.

Jodi Kantor, a Times investigative reporter, told MS NOW's Katy Tur that mounting criticism of the conservative majority's court and its recent decisions — which sometimes have just one sentence — has revealed a shifting tone among the justices.

In her recent book, Justice Amy Coney Barrett acknowledged that the court sometimes doesn’t explain itself “because it doesn't feel ready to commit to reasoning,” Kantor said. ...

Unexplained filings are piling up in Judge Aileen Cannon's courtroom — and no one seems to know exactly what's going on.

The strange "secret docket" measures, relating to former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, were flagged on Thursday by Lawfare's Roger Parloff.

"Undocketed filings in US v Trump (M-a-L) are stacking up. Yesterday the govt sought permission to file a surreply relating to a reply that isn't docketed yet, which related to a response that isn't docketed yet, which related to a motion that isn't docketed yet," wrote Parloff....