Ep 165 — Lower Court Judges Throw Shade At SCOTUS Shadow Docket

District and Circuit Court judges are in more or less open revolt over the Supreme Court’s abuse of the shadow docket. Perhaps Justice Gorsuch shouldn’t have implied that they were all stupid and insubordinate for failing to read his mind! The Trump administration insists it’s very cool and very legal to deport immigrant children in the middle of the night so long as it’s Health and Human Services doing the deporting. Will Judge Tim Kelly agree? And Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni are back to teach us civil procedure. Sanctions, anyone?

Links:

Ronny Jackson v. Weber (CA Sec State)

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71235529/jackson-v-weber/

Kash Patel Makes FBI Great Again By Getting It Sued

https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/kash-patel-makes-fbi-great-again

Alex Jones SCOTUS Cert Petition Docket

https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/25-268.html

Judge Ho “Denny’s” Order

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca5.224134/gov.uscourts.ca5.224134.25.1.pdf

First Circuit Order, Rhode Island v. Trump

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.rid.59257/gov.uscourts.rid.59257.79.0.pdf

Judges, desperate for guidance, plead with Supreme Court justices: ‘Write an opinion’

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/11/supreme-court-emergency-rulings-judges-00558058

L.G.M.L. v. Noem

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71240524/lgml-v-noem

Lively v. Wayfarer Studios LLC

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69510553/lively-v-wayfarer-studios-llc/?order_by=desc

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