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deminks

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Thu May 23, 2024, 06:51 PM May 2024

Senate Dems introduce bill re SCOTUS Shadow Docket [View all]


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NEW: Senate Democrats, led by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D), introduce a bill to require Supreme Court justices to provide written explanations and a vote breakdown for decisions on their emergency docket, also known as shadow docket.

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Good. There's one thing we can do, for all the pearl clutchers. It might be blocked. It might not pass. But we are doing something and getting the magats on the record. Better than a sternly written letter, IMHO.
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Just keep leaning on them with whatever MOMFUDSKI May 2024 #1
lay it on DoBW May 2024 #6
Good. The radical REICH court has been using B.See May 2024 #2
Then we need a SCOTUS Ethical Review Board RainCaster May 2024 #3
SCOTUS would decline FBaggins May 2024 #4
Congress has significant power to regulate the Supreme Court Hermit-The-Prog May 2024 #17
Not in this area FBaggins May 2024 #18
Senate Democrats Introduce Bill To Make US Supreme Court More Transparent Celerity May 2024 #5
And if the Court gives the Senate the middle finger over this KS Toronado May 2024 #7
Can take their money away, make them work in the basement. Make them bring their own lunch Cheezoholic May 2024 #9
Not permitted under the constitution. onenote May 2024 #11
Then reclassify them as an Article XXX Judge with no benefits KS Toronado May 2024 #12
No there's not. onenote May 2024 #13
It's changing laws or making new ones, happens all the time. KS Toronado May 2024 #14
And courts overturn laws all the time FBaggins May 2024 #15
So Senator Blumenthal is just pissing in the wind KS Toronado May 2024 #21
If that was his goal - yes FBaggins May 2024 #22
Changing an express constitutional provision requires a constitutional amendment. And it doesn't happen all the time. onenote May 2024 #20
its not a criminal provision, so no they can't be locked up onenote May 2024 #10
Take their clerks away, make them work Cheezoholic May 2024 #8
SCOTUS will just say it violates separation of powers and toss it out. Takket May 2024 #16
Well sure. But that's only because... FBaggins May 2024 #19
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