New York Times obtains 2016 exchanges between Supreme Court justices on quick rulings
The Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” was once a sleepy procedural backwater—used for last-minute technical rulings, often in death penalty cases, and typically without much attention.
But according to a New York Times deep dive into internal court memos, that began to change over the course of five days in 2016, when the justices took the unusual step of blocking an Obama-era climate rule before lower courts had finished weighing in.
Behind the scenes, the documents show, the move was anything but routine—an early signal that the court was willing to act faster, and more aggressively, than tradition might suggest.
That’s fantastic and the first time I’ve even heard about it, and I’m generally pretty informed on these matters.
However… this is never passing lol
I was amazed myself that I’d never heard of it before now. But yeah, it will pass in time, if we have that time: the only ones who don’t like it are the ones pouring the dark cash into elections. Did you see the map on their website? 25 of 50 states have already passed it or are in the actual process of advancing it. They only need 38.
If you get a chance, listen to Richardson’s interview (or read the transcript) because one of the surprising effects moving this amendment through state legislatures is that representatives who do not have major corporate donors see it as a win for a more equivalent playing field: if they can get it passed, they don’t have to spend all that time and money in races fighting grey money pouring in from undisclosed sources at their opponents.