Gladwyn d’Souza<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/corruptscotus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>corruptscotus</span></a>: Since 2017, the justices have been utilizing these orders far more often, and with far broader effects, than ever before, sometimes instead of resolving similar <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/legalquestions" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>legalquestions</span></a> on the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/merits" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>merits</span></a> docket (where, of course, they’d have to explain their reasoning). Worse, they are also insisting, for the first time, that at least some of these unexplained rulings are <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/precedents" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>precedents</span></a> that lower courts and government officials are bound to follow.</p><p>Vladeck, Stephen. The Shadow Docket (p. 11). Basic Books. Kindle Edition. <br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence</span></a> </p><p>From: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://newsie.social/@toussaint" class="u-url mention">@<span>toussaint</span></a></span><br /><a href="https://newsie.social/@toussaint/110786626692339396" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newsie.social/@toussaint/11078</span><span class="invisible">6626692339396</span></a></p>