Supreme Court called out for using 'slot machine justice' to spare Trump pain [View all]
By Tom Boggioni
Published May 25, 2025 12:50 PM ET
The Supreme Court's increasing use of the so-called "shadow docket" to issue quickie rulings mostly in Donald Trump's favor was on the receiving end of a smack-down on MSNBC on Sunday morning.
With legal expert Melissa Murray explaining the maneuver is normally something that is used for case management, Slate legal analyst Dahlia Lithwick noted that the spare rulings, shorn of detailed legal explanations and citations, is currently giving Trump free rein to do as he pleases -- without justification or reasoning..
"Maybe a good way to think about it is through the lens of this legitimacy question, this court's legitimacy question that we've been talking about for years now, and the sort of plummeting public trust in the court," she began. "Well, what is the single most essential thing that a judicial body can do to instill in the public the sense that this is a lawyerly, sober fact-backed business."
https://www.rawstory.com/supreme-court-shadow-docket/
Time to expand the court...................seriously
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