Both the Senate and House Judiciary Committees have announced that they will hold hearings into the Supreme Court’s use of the shadow docket shortly after the Court virtually outlawed abortion in Texas through the expedited forum.
The voting rights act is getting more important daily. That and the need to reform the Court by increasing the number of justices to 15 before they use the shadow docket to allow the voting rights of all 3/5ths people to be terminated.
The Robert’s Court shows it true identity. Did anyone expect differently? Time to vote out any and all Republicans at any level.
I am glad to hear they’re doing this. keep it in the headlines that there are five craven assholes on SCOTUS trying to turn the US into Gilead in the dead of the night.
Democrats Will Hold Hearings On Supreme Court’s Use Of Shadow Docket
Ok, and then what? The SCOTUS is a separate branch of the government. There’re supposed to be checks and balances, but since when has the not-so-co-equal branch of the government called the legislature had really any power to do anything.
The executive branch has co-opted legislation over the last several years, and now SCOTUS is doing it with the shadow docket. What’s going to change, what new information is going to be revealed that’s going to stop legislation from the bench?
Dick “Dubin?”
Screw the hearings. Increase the number of justices to 15 — with age/term limits — and be done with it.
Then spend the time on impeaching Kav the Spaz for lying to Congress multiple times.
ETA Who paid off his debts?
Yep. I remember reading about the Star Chamber in history class. I never thought I’d be reading about that kind of thing in right-now class but here we are.
The shadow docket games are bad, but their effect is limited in the big picture because, sooner or later, the underlying cases are still going to work their way through the regular trial and appeals process. What’s absolutely galling about the abortion ruling is that five justices decided it was perfectly fine for Texas to shit all over binding Supreme Court precedent and they weren’t going to lift a finger to put a hold on it. If New York put out a $10,000 bounty on all corporations donating money to pols and PACs, you can be assured that SCOTUS would enjoin that law immediately.
I think you mean 6 craven assholes. One of them dithers here and there so not to be that obvious.
But another question is if a woman or some women from Texas, and soon to be other states, are harassed by the SC shadow docket decision can those women sue the SC? And who would hear the case? Don’t they have a right of petition?
We now have the 21st century’s Dred Scott decision.
How do you accomplish that when you don’t have a clear Democratic majority in the Senate?
EXACTLY! There’s nothing Congress can do specifically here. They could add seats to the Court and get them filled before the Dems lose the Senate. But this also means the Senate would need to eliminate the filibuster now.
So again, there’s nothing Congress can do with these “Benghazi”-like hearings.
Eliminate the filibuster. Enshrine Roe into law. Pass voting rights. Expand the court. Grant Statehood to DC and Puerto Rico. The shadow docket will take care of itself.
Plainly unconstitutional. Mandatory senior status at the latter of age 70 or 10 years on the bench would probably pass muster, though, at least for new appointees. Basically, just redefine the job description so that when they reach senior status, their only remaining job is to go be a visiting judge in the lower courts, and they get replaced with appointment of another active judge to the Supreme Court.
FIFY 
This is nuts. None of these people are fit to be parents.
Democrats are demonstrating concern. This will for sure let everyone know who’s the big dog in town.
What if some blue states to pass laws with the same kind of enforcement mechanism as the Texas anti-abortion bill. Put the same kind of bounty on anyone who abets any gun crime that kills a child, from selling the gun, to a shooter’s rental car company.
Hearings on shadow docket? Good, I suppose, but I’m not sure how.
Ah, the Incredible Whiteness of Being.