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.
Do the leaked memos reveal how many luxury Winnebagos and vacation trips Clarence Thomas was gifted by his good Nazi friend Harlan Crow?
It’s not a gift, gifts would be unethical! It’s a gratuity. See the difference?
Fucking American tip-culture is getting out of hand.
Well, it certainly is gratuitous.
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.
“I’m sorry, the best we can do is campaigning on status quo, everything is fine, at least I’m not Trump. What are you going to do, vote for a third party and throw your vote away?”
The response to that (at least the one that I’m willing to type online) is to join your local chapters of RankTheVote or other RCV advocacy groups. If we removed FPTP in every state, and also push for local state implementations of “The Montana Plan” (Transparent Election Initiative) which is a way around overturning Citzens United. Check it out.
Didn’t you know, basic economics is a woke lib worldwide conspiracy.
It’s cowardice, a desire to be unaccountable, and probably laziness, as well.
And he used the excuse that it would be expensive to stop coal - literally the worst of energy production methods, which the industry already started to phase out BECAUSE IT ISN’T WORTH IT AND BUILDING OUT RENEWABLES IS CHEAPER THAN OPERATING COAL PLANTS
