“[T]he criticisms of the U.S. Supreme Court’s shadow docket apply with even greater force to state shadow dockets. While the U.S. Supreme Court’s shadow docket decisions appear on the Court’s publicly available orders list and are ultimately published . . . some state’s shadow docket decisions are inaccessible . . ..”
“This lack of transparency raises questions about the precedential value of state shadow docket decisions, the consistency of judicial decision-making, and the public perception of the legitimacy of state courts’ decisions.”
Supreme Court Limits E.P.A.’s Power to Address Water Pollution
Experts said the decision would sharply undercut the agency’s authority to protect millions of acres of wetlands under the Clean Water Act, leaving them subject to pollution without penalty.
The #SupremeCourt today significantly shrank the reach of federal clean water protections, dealing a major blow to President #Biden’s efforts to restore protections to millions of acres of wetlands and delivering a victory to multiple powerful industries.
The US Supreme Court Clean Water Act decision could be disastrous for wetland protection - and therefore for our nation's flood risks and water quality. The continuous surface test ignores the physical / hydrologic realities of wetlands.
📢 Five members of the Supreme Court dealt a crushing blow to the Clean Water Act, rewriting the word "adjacent" in the law to mean "adjoining," thus leaving unprotected from pollution, and EPA oversight, vast swaths of wetlands. 🚨🚨
The decision is so extreme that they even lost Brett Kavanaugh, who wrote separately to note that "long-regulated adjacent wetlands" are now at the mercy of polluters, "with significant repercussions for water quality and flood control throughout the United States."
The SCOTUS is serving the republican Deep State cabal of wealthy men that put their paid-for agents on the court. #corrupt#SCOTUS#corruption
The owner's of America want more land, cheaply, and they want to #pollute#wetlands, to reduce costs.
Same sex couples and #LGBTQ+ activists in India are fighting for their fundamental right. Petition seeking to legalize same #sex#marriage in Indian #SupremeCourt has started a debate in among supporters and administration, including religious leaders.
Really concerned about the 41% of the country who think the Supreme Court is doing a good job. Maybe they’re giving them credit for being good at taking bribes.
Ian Millhiser:
A new polls finds that 59 percent of US adults disapprove of the Republican-controlled #SupremeCourt. #SCOTUS
SCOOP: Here's the letter that Justice Clarence Thomas's benefactor Harlan Crow sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee last night. His lawyers, from top firm Gibson Dunn, are arguing Congress doesn't have the authority to investigate the Supreme Court.
@juddlegum This is a good indication that #HarlanCrow is prepared to blackmail 4 more #SupremeCourt Justices, if necessary. Or, maybe he's already started down that road.
"The shadow, or emergency, docket, is the way many cases today, sometimes hugely consequential cases, are decided, without full briefing or oral argument, and without any written opinion."
"In just four years, the Trump Justice Department asked the court for emergency relief an astounding 41 times, and the court actually granted all or part of those requests in 28 of the cases."
"The horror of the 91-year-old reclusive billionaire Barre Seid—his name rhymes with 'parricide'—bequeathing $1.6 billion of his vast fortune to radical Catholic forced birth activist and Supreme Court fixer Leonard Leo did not hit home for me until this week, when I read Nina Burleigh’s article in the New Republic."
“#PlannedParenthood has officially joined the growing chorus of liberal politicians and advocates calling for adding seats to the GOP-dominated #SupremeCourt, the first time that the organization has done so.”