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KProfsBlog<p>Shout out to @dividedargument.bsky.social for the Supreme Court podcast’s funniest moment ever. The shadow docket is all about doing something for no reason. In the latest episode, @williambaude.bsky.social and @epps.bsky.social note SCOTUS’s recent peak shadow docket opinion. The Court did nothing for no reason, and it was still 5-4.</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/podcasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>podcasts</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/ShadowDocket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShadowDocket</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/contracts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contracts</span></a></p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p><a href="https://overcast.fm/+5wvnQfFKI" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">overcast.fm/+5wvnQfFKI</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p>the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/court" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>court</span></a> does not expect us to agree with the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/principles" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>principles</span></a> that are espoused in these <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/decisions" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>decisions</span></a>, but they expect us to agree that these are principled decisions. And on the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/shadowdocket" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>shadowdocket</span></a>, when most of these <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/rulings" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rulings</span></a> have no <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/explanation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>explanation</span></a> whatsoever, that really, really complicates the story, especially when, as we&#39;ve seen over the last five or six years, the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/pattern" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>pattern</span></a> looks far more <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/nefarious" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>nefarious</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ShelbyCounty" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ShelbyCounty</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/VotingRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VotingRightsAct</span></a> <br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/PurchasedJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PurchasedJustice</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/PlantationCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PlantationCourt</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/corruptconservativescotus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>corruptconservativescotus</span></a><br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CorruptEqualsConservative" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CorruptEqualsConservative</span></a></p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p>Why the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SettlerMindset" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SettlerMindset</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/pollutes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>pollutes</span></a> with the one paragraph <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ShadowDocket" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ShadowDocket</span></a>: After parsing adjacent and including through Random, Webster, and Oxford, the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/RonDantis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RonDantis</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/bannedcurriculum" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bannedcurriculum</span></a> graduates on SCROTUS rewrite the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CWA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CWA</span></a> to adjoining (page 20 <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-454_4g15.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pd</span><span class="invisible">f/21-454_4g15.pdf</span></a> ) to which Kagan says narrows: The majority could use every letter of the alphabet, and graduate to quadratic equations, and still not solve its essential problem (page 4).</p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p>Does <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DueProcess</span></a> matter? By Sherrilyn Ifill and Stephen Vladeck. Yes, so pay attention locally. Justin <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Jones" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Jones</span></a> and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Pearson" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Pearson</span></a> went into the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Tennessee" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Tennessee</span></a> rabbit hole without a lawyer to expose the latest <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/WhiteSupremacist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteSupremacist</span></a> front founded on <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SuperMajority" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SuperMajority</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/immunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>immunity</span></a> from <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/violations" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>violations</span></a> and shame; and constructed with <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/gerrymandering" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>gerrymandering</span></a>, <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/votersuppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>votersuppression</span></a> and the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ShadowDocket" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ShadowDocket</span></a>- which resulted from the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/InditedInsurector" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>InditedInsurector</span></a> creating an opaque process, from how they killed in the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/DarkOfNight" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DarkOfNight</span></a>, to not challenging mundane but consequential items like… <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/TheWall" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TheWall</span></a> and justice <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/junkets" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>junkets</span></a> with <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/megadonors" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>megadonors</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://slate.com/podcasts/amicus/2023/04/the-tennessee-three-and-the-republican-strategy-to-make-voting-irrelevant" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">slate.com/podcasts/amicus/2023</span><span class="invisible">/04/the-tennessee-three-and-the-republican-strategy-to-make-voting-irrelevant</span></a></p>
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