How SCOTUS Ruled to Increase Executive Power and Challenge Constitutional Order

How SCOTUS ruled to increase executive power and challenge constitutional order

New York Times reporter Adam Liptak discusses the Court's decisions to limit the power of lower courts while expanding presidential power, and its consequential use of the "shadow docket."

SCOTUS Shadow Docket Proves They Work For Trump

Political Science Professor Adam Bonica prepared a chart (see below) that is worth at least a thousand words. He accompanied it with the explainer, “When lower courts blocked Trump admin policies, SCOTUS intervened on an emergency basis to lift those orders in 77% of cases. For the Biden administration, that number was 0%. Even worse, Bonica points out that all the nationwide injunctions blocking Biden administration policies were issued by Repu…

Speakers tell Charlottesville City Council of Trump administration’s threats to U.S. Constitution

Democracy in America has many layers and a Constitutional crisis has been going on since January 20 when the second presidency of Donald Trump began with a series of executive orders intended to secure power in the hands of the White House. A series of 6-3 rulings by the United States Supreme Court appears to have given a green light for that executive authority. One ruling issued on June 27 effectively stopped a commonly used legal practice. “T…