Justice Jackson warns the Supreme Court is manipulating the rules to benefit Trump

https://www.vox.com/scotus/416073/supreme-court-justice-ketanji-brown-jackson-shadow-docket-trump

43 comments

  2. No shit. They’re literally ignoring the Constitution..

  4. Warns who? The general public? Great, thanks for the warning.

  6. I see the comments are going with the “everyone already knows this” route rather than the “why isn’t the media reporting on this” route. Tough to please everybody, I guess!

  7. I just don’t get it. I can understand the US having a dictator but why Donald Trump, the reality TV star?

  8. We are all sitting back watching blatant corruption at the highest levels.

  9. Okay everyone, you’re all super smart and knew this already!! Great!!!

    It means a lot more when a Supreme Court justice says something like this. It has a lot more weight and those that don’t have galaxy brains may learn something new

  10. What you mean to say is that the Supreme Court is corrupt and void of any ethics. SCOTUS = tax cheats. They love their lavish tax free/funds from right wing billionaires

  11. Thank you Justice Jackson, you are a beacon of republic values as opposed to your colleagues and the Führer who are keepers of a figurative pigsty.

  12. The problem the SCOTUS doesn’t realize is that they’re undermining their own authority.

  13. water is wet and there is no presidential immunity in the constitution.

  15. Chief Justice John Roberts has sold America to the highest bidder.

  17. Thats become the Republican way that’s how they control the Supreme court by stealing the seat and changing rules to benefit them. So why would anyone expect those justices to act any different.

  18. Girl, we already know. What are you going to do about it?

  19. The Supreme Court is supposed to be a guardian of the people and their rights as citizens. This Supreme Court has completely ignored its priorities to the people. They will go down as one of the most corrupt Supreme Court ever. They have refused to protect the rights of the people and are just puppets of a tyrant dictator. We can only win by joining together to stop these enemies of democracy. We will never stop until we take our democracy back!!!

  21. I mean, this isn’t standard dissenter complaining. This is pretty cut and dry. Again and again they’re using the shadow docket to help Trump. Why wasn’t Trump’s immunity case an emergency that warranted the shadow docket? Why did that one need to take so long that there was no way to litigate the case properly after they reached their decision about “official acts?” But DOGE *needs* this access right now I guess and so that’s an emergency situation? What the fuck? Why?

    One thing that has long made the Supreme Court the “least dangerous branch” is that there’s a degree of inherent accountability in place. Sure, they can’t be removed through elections or any easy mechanism. But they have to provide written explanations for every decision they make, which can be scrutinized by knowledgeable observers. But there’s no requirement to write any such opinion for the shadow docket. When they abuse this process, they’re undermining the one shred of accountability they have.

  22. Warning? ok. So what are our leaders in Congress doing? Nothing would be a good answer. They are enabling. We are f’ed.

  23. this is so obvious I’m surprised Elon didn’t reveal it

  24. When a Republican is president: unitary executive theory

    When a Democrat is president: Congress has to specify in minute detail what the president is allowed to do

  27. Really? Its about time someone takes notice! And hopefully get something done to stop it

  29. Anyone know what the article says. Can’t get past the paywall.

  30. When one groups in charge of making and enforcing rules you should expect no different

  32. Thanks for stating the obvious. Now, what can we do about it?

  34. Yeah, we know. They’ve been going out of their way to hand hold him for nearly a decade now.

  38. I am so sick of the words “filed an emergency appeal.”

    It’s bullshit that Trump’s entire legal strategy in anything against him is to delay, deny, and obfuscate, but where he sees a sympathetic Supreme Court he demands summary judgment *now*.

    And he gets it. I hate that man so much. A corrupt ass of a man that for some reason our system contorts and convolutes itself to avoid holding accountable, but genuflects in subservience to in order to enable.

  42. No shit, good thing we didn’t support Hillary to prove how cool, independent, and Bernie based we all are. If the Court had a more balanced political composition it might be as rational and effective as it was in the early 70’s. What a nightmare, huh Bros?

  43. TLDR:

    * The Supreme Court recently allowed the Trump administration to access sensitive data without fully explaining its legal justification, sparking dissent from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
    * Jackson argues that the Court is bending its usual rules — particularly around the “shadow docket” — to favor Trump by bypassing standard judicial processes.
    * She points out that the Court has abandoned the traditional requirement of showing “irreparable harm” before granting emergency relief, especially in Trump-related cases.
    * The Trump administration often seeks immediate Supreme Court intervention when lower courts rule against it, and the justices frequently comply, unlike their treatment of similar requests from the Biden administration.
    * Past decisions, like in Biden v. Texas and United States v. Texas, show the Court was more restrained and slower to act when Democrats were in power.
    * Jackson warns this pattern suggests partisan bias in the Court’s handling of emergency cases, undermining legal standards and judicial neutrality.

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