New York Times obtains 2016 exchanges between Supreme Court justices on quick rulings
The Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” was once a sleepy procedural backwater—used for last-minute technical rulings, often in death penalty cases, and typically without much attention.
But according to a New York Times deep dive into internal court memos, that began to change over the course of five days in 2016, when the justices took the unusual step of blocking an Obama-era climate rule before lower courts had finished weighing in.
Behind the scenes, the documents show, the move was anything but routine—an early signal that the court was willing to act faster, and more aggressively, than tradition might suggest.
So, when will the general public come to realize the Supreme Court is just as corrupted as everything else in politics? The next Democratic presidential candidate better campaign on complete overhaul, pack the courts, remove lifetime appointments, etc.
the Supreme Court is just as corrupted
I would say far MORE corrupted, because they have knowingly and openly been rolling back our rights, or protections, and explicitly any and all laws related to money in elections since the 70s, relying on obscurity and the general disinterest of the average layman in arcane legal matters to do it in open daylight, and throwing out the same kind of legalese bullshit to cover it even if it was noticed at the time.
And once John Roberts, who went from mere attorney to Chief Justice of SCOTUS in just five years courtesy of his work on Bush v. Gore in 2000 (tell me how that’s even possible in any kind of meritocracy) was in place, and Mitch McConnell did his part to deny Obama his presidential right to fill his own vacant seat, and then the handmaiden of Leonard Leo was rolled in on a similarly manipulative expedited appointment (you know the rest) the selling of the US went on speedrun.
MORE corrupt, not as corrupt. The only difference is that now they’re not even trying to hide it.
It’s cowardice, a desire to be unaccountable, and probably laziness, as well.
