emergency orders

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power 2026-04-21

Leaked Supreme Court Memos Show Roberts Built the Shadow Docket to Block Obama's Climate Policy

The documents don't just expose how a 2016 emergency stay happened. They reveal that the Chief Justice used internal persuasion campaigns to make unsigned, unreasoned emergency orders a standard tool of conservative governance.

power 2026-04-19

The New York Times Got the Supreme Court's Internal Memos. The Leak Matters More Than the Memos.

SCOTUS justices are publicly feuding over the shadow docket just as someone with access handed their private deliberations to a reporter.

power 2026-04-17

Justice Jackson Says the Supreme Court Is Rubber-Stamping Illegal Policies. She Is Probably Right.

A sitting justice went to Yale Law School to accuse her colleagues of issuing 'scratch-paper musings' that let Trump implement policies courts already found unlawful.

power 2026-04-16

The Justice Who Said What the Court Won't

Ketanji Brown Jackson's Yale speech against the shadow docket is not just dissent: it is a warning about what the Court has already become.