Clarence Thomas Troubles Point to SCOTUS Accountability Issues
Steve Vladeck, the author of a forthcoming book on the top court, told Insider that Supreme Court justices "shouldn't be their own judges."
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Steve Vladeck, the author of a forthcoming book on the top court, told Insider that Supreme Court justices "shouldn't be their own judges."
<p>Important judicial decisions are increasingly made through the procedural rulings the Court makes on lower-court decisions, without extensive briefings, arguments, or publicity. Law professor Steve Vladek explains why this matters, and why Samuel Alito is mad at him.</p>
Last night the Supreme Court entered a short but important order staying an order issued by the Northern District of...
Emergency motions like this, the justices often do not give us a reason. this has been referred to as the shadow docket. so we only heard last night from justice alito why he would have left part of these rulings in place, and we don't know yet what the other justices are thinking. all right, and this is a lido, explaining his descent to writing the vitamin ist rations, warnings about the lower court's rulings. uh and he claimed, quoting now the government has not dispelled legitimate doubts that it would even obey an unfavorable order. so that assertion was outright. contrary to the biden adm...