One day after the Supreme Court lifted the ban on racial profiling, federal agents swarmed a car in Van Nuys. Four masked agents with guns drawn yanked people out, slammed them to the ground, and pointed a weapon at a pregnant woman. There is no justification for this. None.
— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) September 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Judges vexed by Supreme Court ‘shadow docket’ rulings in Trump cases
An extraordinary spat is occurring within the U.S. judiciary concerning a flurry of Supreme Court decisions backing President Donald Trump, with judges voicing confusion over the rulings issued on an emergency basis while a Trump-appointed justice accused some of them of defying the nation’s top judicial body.
These decisions have let the Trump administration implement contentious policies that were impeded by judges who had cast doubt on the legality of the Republican president’s actions. In issuing such opinions, the Supreme Court has offered little or no reasoning for its actions. That has caused exasperation among some of the judges whose decisions have been lifted, with conservative Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch offering them a biting response.
The cases at issue have been decided on what is called the “shadow docket.” These decisions are issued on an expedited basis outside the usual appeals process. In such cases, public oral arguments before the justices are not held and rulings are typically curt and unsigned. There is more transparency in cases decided through the normal process, with arguments for all to see and a detailed decision laying out the legal reasoning.
Several judges handling cases involving legal challenges to Trump policies in recent months have criticized rulings issued on the shadow docket. This controversy has brought renewed focus on the shadow docket, which long was a rarely used path for cases but now has become commonplace – and has surged since Trump returned to office in January.
Trump’s administration has filed 25 emergency applications with the Supreme Court this year challenging rulings impeding his policies, while another such application was filed in a Trump-related case by lawyers for migrants on the verge of deportation. The court has acted in 24 of these cases. It has sided with Trump entirely or in part 21 times and decided against him twice. The court postponed action in one case that later was declared moot, and the administration withdrew two applications.
SCOTUS is a political arm of the MAGA GOP.
— George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) September 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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New in PN: Brett Kavanaugh explains that SCOTUS really IS doing racism "Five justices calculated that it was better to remain silent and be thought of as a bunch of racist hacks than to speak out and remove all doubt. But Kavanaugh, channeling his inner Col. Jessup, refused to sign on to the plan."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) September 10, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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/4 SCOTUS has lost the presumption of regularity — the mandate of the legal heavens — through its shadow docket actions, which by invoking SCOTUS' equitable discretionary powers have obliterated the pretext that SCOTUS is merely calling balls and strikes, merely calling lines where they see them.
— Stand With Chicago Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) September 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
/7 SCOTUS, the Federalist Society, the entire academic and intellectual infrastructure that brought us here: they're nothing but pretentious Trumpers. At least the guy in the MAGA hat and "fuck your feelings" t-shirt is honest about who he is. These people are not.
— Stand With Chicago Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) September 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
/8 Fight, scorn, defy, and obstruct them, because they are the unapologetic forces of ignorance, bigotry, and thuggery.
— Stand With Chicago Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) September 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
In a win for Trump, Supreme Court lifts restrictions on LA immigration stops
A lower court said federal agents need a reasonable suspicion that someone is in the country illegally and can’t rely on factors such as ethnicity.
In other words, corrupt SCOTUS is fine with stopping American citizens who then would likely have to shot their papers, please IF they are not white. Utterly disgusting
SCOTUS decided that most Californians can be treated as non-Citizens until proven otherwise. please make sure to be as “foreign” as you can in public to confuse them. California became American in 1850 which includes the Spanish language and Hispanic history. CA IS AMERICAN. We know who we are.
— St. Gael (@stgael.bsky.social) September 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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To Preserve Trump’s Funding Cuts, Conservative Judges Are Simply Making Shit Up
