The Supreme Court Has Been Captured by a Dangerous Cabal that Resorts to Sneaky and Improper Methods to Get Its Ways - Lawyers, Guns & Money

The Supreme Court has been captured by a dangerous cabal that resorts to sneaky and improper methods to get its ways - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Adam Liptak has a useful article [gift link] summuziaring the Supreme Court’s run of unreasoned orders permitting Trump to go ahead with actions that are both highly consequential and illegal. At one point, he reminds us of Sam Alito’s defense of the Court’s partisan shadow docket decision-making, which at this point one can only respond “this, but unironically”: Critics call the emergency docket “the shadow docket,” and its use was on the rise…

The Supreme Court’s new trick: unexplained verdicts

Join us today, Wednesday, July 16, at 12:30 p.m. Eastern, when we’ll speak with American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten. Watch on desktop at The Ink or join us from a phone or tablet with the Substack app.Subscribe nowIn today’s letter, we break down a stealthy move on the rise at the Supreme Court, in which major decisions are made without what used to be the heart of a verdict: an actual explanation. And we examine why this …