Over the weekend, The
#NewYorkTimes published a trove of personal memos from the members of the
#SupremeCourt outlining the court’s promiscuous use of the so-called shadow docket. It has become the carefully constructed conservative majority’s favorite work-around to kill policies it doesn’t like and support causes that it and its
#corporate patrons do.
The report is an astonishing leak of private communications between the justices. It bespeaks a court at war with itself, completely out of the control of Chief Justice
#JohnRoberts. The best evidence of the latter contention is the fact that Roberts emerges from these memos as a complete hack. The Times traces the invigorated
#shadowdocket back to when Roberts used it to block an environmental program from President Barack
#Obama #esquire.com