Supreme Court called out for using 'slot machine justice' to spare Trump pain

[turbinetree]

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

[Irish_Dem]

1. The US Supreme Court is part of the Trump Crime Syndicate.

Members in good standing.

[turbinetree]

2. For a very long time.............now we have six members from the Federalist Society sitting on just this bench.....

just imagine at the district and the state courts................

[pnwmom]

3. Now is NOT the time to expand the Court. Not as long as Trump or Vance are in office.

They'd just appoint more like the majority there is now.

[MLWR]

4. I DO NOT WANT KRASNOV TO EXPAND THE COURT.

[calimary]

6. There certainly is that.

[kentuck]

5. I think you may be on to something...

...that has been suggested for many years. But the times seem more right at this time because of the makeup of this court. We need to dilute it so a Clarence Thomas or Sam Alito does not have a harmful amount of power on the Court, in my opinion.