Supreme Court To Lower Courts: Ignore Actual Binding Precedent, Follow Our Unexplained Shadow Docket Vibes Instead

Trump v Boyle: The Conservative Justices Expect Lower Court Judges to Read Their Minds Now

On Wednesday, the Republican bloc of the Supreme Court issued a two-paragraph shadow docket order allowing President Donald Trump to fire three members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the federal agency created by Congress to ensure that the stuff the public buys doesn’t kill us. Since the CPSC needs to make decisions based on public safety and not political pressure, federal law prohibits presidents from removing its commissioners wi…

Supreme Court To Lower Courts: Ignore Actual Binding Precedent, Follow Our Unexplained Shadow Docket Vibes Instead

The Supreme Court’s shadow docket has become a lawless mess. The justices are issuing extremely consequential rulings with either no explanation at all, or with barely a paragraph of reasoning. No full briefing. No oral arguments. Just vibes-based constitutional law that lower courts are somehow supposed to follow.Now the Court has made this chaos worse by essentially telling lower courts to treat these half-baked emergency rulings as more impor…

Supreme Court To Lower Courts: Ignore Actual Binding Precedent, Follow Our Unexplained Shadow Docket Vibes Instead - Above the Law

(Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg) The Supreme Court’s shadow docket has become a lawless mess. The justices are issuing extremely consequential rulings with either no explanation at all, or with barely a paragraph of reasoning. No full briefing. No oral arguments. Just vibes-based constitutional law that lower courts are somehow supposed to follow. Now the Court has made this chaos worse by essentially telling lower courts to treat thes…

Letters to the Editor: There’s no reversing the harm that will come from Supreme Court’s unexplained decisions

'The Supreme Court majority’s silent, unsigned decisions ignored and made a mockery of the required “irreparable harm” the deported plaintiffs and fired employees will suffer and expressly found by the district courts in granting their preliminary injunctions,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

The Unitary Executive Theory As Government-Smasher - Legal Planet

Original photo: Matt H. Wade via Wikipedia / CC-BY-SA-3.0 It is a misnomer to discuss the current Supreme Court’s “jurisprudence” on anything, as if it has an approach to any legal question other than, “because we said so, libtard.” But in the wake of the Court’s lawless and arbitrary use of the shadow docket to destroy statutes and precedents for the purpose of giving Donald Trump greater power – and not even bothering to explain why – somethin…

Emergency docket orders should 'inform' courts in similar cases, SCOTUS says

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed President Donald Trump to remove, for now, three Democratic members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, pointing to its prior emergency docket order allowing the firing of board members of two other independent agencies.