{"id":72502,"date":"2026-05-15T14:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/72502\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T14:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:45:13","slug":"john-oliver-explains-how-the-supreme-court-keeps-letting-trump-get-away-with-it-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/72502\/","title":{"rendered":"John Oliver explains how the Supreme Court keeps letting Trump get away with it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">You may have heard about (and balked at) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/supreme-court\/chief-justice-john-roberts-says-justices-are-not-political-actors-rcna343958\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:comments;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;comments&quot;}\" class=\"link \">comments<\/a> from Chief Supreme Court Justice John Roberts last week, wherein he suggested we were all wrong and crazy for thinking that the justices were behaving like \u201cpolitical actors.\u201d Of course, the reason people might have that idea is because it seems like the justices\u2014three of which were appointed by Trump himself\u2014regularly bypass the lower courts to give the president what he wants nearly immediately. Last night on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/john-oliver-last-week-tonight-ai-chatbots\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Last Week Tonight;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Last Week Tonight&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Last Week Tonight<\/a>, John Oliver explained the legal framework, which has arguably been bent significantly out of shape, that lets this happen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It\u2019s called the shadow docket, which is a name at least a couple of the justices have objected to. Amy Coney Barrett prefers \u201cemergency docket,\u201d and Brett Kavanaugh would rather it called the \u201cinterim docket.\u201d But whatever you call it, it\u2019s a process that has allowed the Trump administration to remove all transgender people from the military, allow ICE to conduct blatant racial profiling, and other actions that lower courts have previously deemed illegal. The shadow docket is supposed to exist in cases that will cause irreparable harm to one party if a ruling doesn\u2019t happen immediately; for example, the Supreme Court can stay an execution. For years, that\u2019s basically the extent of what it was used for.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">But now the docket is being used when a lower court rules against one of Donald Trump\u2019s executive orders, basically allowing the order to continue without a real legal discussion about it. Barrett is careful to say that these decisions are expected to be temporary, but those temporary decisions can easily cause irreversible harm to the subjects of Trump\u2019s scorn. Oliver highlights the trans people who were banned from the military thanks to the shadow docket who now have no source of income until the legal proceedings reach the Supreme Court yet again. Check out the whole segment below.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You may have heard about (and balked at) comments from Chief Supreme Court Justice John Roberts last week,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[4084,3428,39383,535,536,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-72502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-john-roberts","8":"tag-amy-coney-barrett","9":"tag-brett-kavanaugh","10":"tag-john-oliver","11":"tag-john-roberts","12":"tag-supreme-court","13":"tag-trump"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116579134513632529","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}