Who’s committed the latest Supreme Court leak and why?
Will Chamberlain explains how the Court is responding, why the leak story matters, and what it could mean for the judiciary going forward.
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👉 Leaked memos between justices reveal the Supreme Court’s shadow docket is worse than we thought.
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“Chief Justice Balls ’n’ Strikes seems a bit confused. He’s not supposed to care about the economic impact of a presidential initiative. He’s only supposed to decide whether the initiative itself is constitutional.”👇🏼
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tl;dr: The #SCOTUS6 only do this to Dem presidents. So-called emergency power.
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![The tension here is between creed and conduct. The reporting leaves Roberts looking less like a neutral umpire than a chief justice willing to use emergency procedure to protect a conservative policy order, then speak of the Court as though it stands cleanly above politics.
“We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges.”
Chief Justice John Roberts, 2018 statement
“[C]all balls and strikes, and not to pitch or bat.”
John G. Roberts Jr., 2005 confirmation hearings
“[F]unctionally irreversible”
Chief Justice John Roberts, internal memo quoted by The New York Times](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wnhlwfb44kfyi4gb6yc2tvbz/bafkreihz6i67gay6d7rgofftncsxyk7w2oumnk5nnnzhc4n2ehcfga5axq)
The tension here is between creed and conduct. The reporting leaves Roberts looking less like a neutral umpire than a chief justice willing to use emergency procedure to protect a conservative policy order, then speak of the Court as though it stands cleanly above politics. “We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges.” Chief Justice John Roberts, 2018 statement “[C]all balls and strikes, and not to pitch or bat.” John G. Roberts Jr., 2005 confirmation hearings “[F]unctionally irreversible” Chief Justice John Roberts, internal memo quoted by The New York Times
⚖️🌎 John Roberts sold himself as an umpire. These memos make him look more like a closer called in from the Republican bullpen — using the shadow docket to freeze Obama’s climate plan before normal review could even breathe. #SCOTUS #ShadowDocket #Climate #JohnRoberts
'Inside the Five Days That Remade the #SupremeCourt'? "Secret memos obtained by The #NewYorkTimes illuminate the origins of the #court’s now-routine ' #ShadowDocket' rulings on #PresidentialPower" | The Daily www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/p... #SCOTUS #RobertsCourt #JudicialBranch
Not one justice mentioned climate damage as a harm worth considering.
Sotomayor, this month: "We've done it to ourselves."
Read Kantor, Liptak, and Vladeck. All three are worth your time.
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ICYMI: REPORT: The Latest 'Shadow Docket' Scandal Proves Between the Justices and Legacy Media, SCOTUS Is Toast redstate.com/jenniferoo/2... #SCOTUS #ShadowDocket #FauxOutrage #DeliberativeBody #Obama #Trump #ExecutiveAuthority
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Video by Jodi Kantor, Alexandra Ostasiewicz, June Kim and Luke Piotrowski/The New York Times #supremecourt #scotus #shadowdocket #obama #trump
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Jim Roberts: "This article makes it painfully but obviously clear how much damage Chief Justice John Roberts has done to the institution of the nation’s highest court. History will take account" […]
Justice Jackson stood at Yale and sounded the alarm.
"Other litigants must follow the rules — but the administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial."
She's asking us to demand change. I'm amplifying her warning.
Full article: link above
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The #NewYorkTimes, illuminate the origins of the #ShadowDocket — the expedited, secretive track that this #SupremeCourt has used to make many major decisions, including granting #Trump 20+ victories. #FreeArticle
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The NYT got the receipts. The Supreme Court's secret docket has handed Trump 80% of his emergency requests in under a year. No arguments. No explanation. That's a court doing politics in the dark.
My Sunday Substack goes deeper. 👇
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Gift Article: How #SCOTUS abandoned its role as legal arbiter, and became a rouge actor by creating the #ShadowDocket.
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“Read a decade later, the memos suggest that none of the justices fully appreciated what they were doing: embarking on a questionable new way of operating.”👇🏼
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#SupremeCourt #SCOTUS How did we get here?! #shadowdocket
Another one for today--Important reporting.
[NYTimes-Gift article]: The Shadow Papers. The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court By Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak
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"Secret memos obtained by The New York Times illuminate the origins of the Supreme Court's now-routine #ShadowDocket rulings on presidential power":
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Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis.
History of the #shadowdocket
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“The 16 pages of memos, exchanged in a five-day dash, provide an extraordinarily rare window into the court, showing how the justices talk to one another outside of public view.” @jodikantor.bsky.social / @adamliptak.bsky.social on the origins of the #ShadowDocket www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
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#corruption #shadowdocket #climate #power
Corruption that hurts the inhabitants on planet Earth is unconscionable.
This is why investigative journalism is so important. #SCOTUS #shadowdocket #uspoli
We don't have to put up with "shadow docket."
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