“Brett Kavanaugh’s Racial Profiling Apologia Is Bad and Embarrassing; One possible reason the conservative justices usually don’t explain their pro-Trump shadow docket opinions: Their pro-Trump shadow docket opinions might read like this.” Jay Willis has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.
Also online at Balls and Strikes, Madiba K. Dennie has an essay titled “Conservative Justices Declare Racial Profiling Just Fine If Mister Trump Asks For It; Once again, the Court issues an unexplained shadow docket order that will inflict real-world harm on people whom Supreme Court justices never encounter or think about.”
Online at The New Republic, Matt Ford has an essay titled “Brett Kavanaugh’s Shadow Docket Attack on Your Civil Liberties; Whether motivated by animus or naïveté, the justice’s rationale for permitting law enforcement to racially profile suspects has dark implications for democracy.”
And online at The Atlantic, Nick Miroff has an essay titled “How Do You Prove Your Citizenship? ICE won’t say.”
“How the Supreme Court Stacked the Shadow Docket Deck for Trump; If you’re wondering how the high court’s lawless sausage got made, we must turn to an obscure line from a long-forgotten 1977 case”: Matt Ford has this essay online at The New Republic.
“The fate of Trump’s tariffs hinges on this Supreme Court doctrine: Will justices rein in presidential power or entrench suspicions of partisan bias?” Columnist Jason Willick has this essay online at The Washington Post.
“Tariffs Face Legal Threat That Puts Trump’s Deficit Plan at Risk”: Laura Curtis and Daniel Flatley of Bloomberg News have this report.
“Dear Justice Kavanaugh, ‘I’m American, Bro’: Why Brett Kavanaugh’s unconstitutional freestyling on racial profiling just landed all of us in deep trouble.” You can access today’s new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link.
“No Time for Respect; Supreme Court justices and grand juries are telling us enough is enough”: Reynolds Holding has this post at his “Better Judgment” Substack site.
“States Heading Toward Constitutional Showdown Over Abortion Shield Laws; Texas and New York are at the leading edge of an escalating states’ rights battle over the mailing of abortion pills to patients in states with bans”: Pam Belluck of The New York Times has this report.
And Jessica Shuran Yu of The Texas Tribune reports that “Texas bill to restrict abortion pills beefs up an existing legal tool for a new fight; HB 7, which passed the Legislature this month, allows private citizens to sue abortion pill providers and manufacturers, mirroring a 2021 law that allows private enforcement of abortion bans.”
