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Steve Vladeck Profile picture
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May 30 • 3 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
After Justice Kagan (notably) provided a brief explanation for her recusal from a case in last week’s #SCOTUS Order List, here’s Justice Alito *not* explaining his recusal in a case in which certiorari was denied today:

supremecourt.gov/orders/courtor… Image
Here’s Kagan last week:

supremecourt.gov/orders/courtor… Image
Alito owns stock in Phillips 66—one of the petitioners here. So there’s no great mystery (or sinister reason) for recusing.

But that seems all the *more* reason to follow what was supposed to be the new norm of disclosure—since everyone already knows why he’s not participating.

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May 16
1. To mark today's publication day for "The Shadow Docket," I wanted to write a #thread not about the book, but about gratitude—to *everyone* who helped to make this day a reality, and to whom I am so deeply and profoundly grateful.

Here goes:
2. At the top of the list of people without whom there wouldn't be a book are my fantastic agent, @AliaHanna, and my amazing editor, @emmafberry.

From the beginning, both Alia and Emma understood not just what I hoped to accomplish in the book, but how to make it happen.
3. I'm also grateful to my sister-in-law, @doree, who in addition to being a wonderful writer of her own and the person who introduced me to Alia, has also been an incredibly patient correspondent and soother of nerves all the way through this process.
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May 15
I’m bopping around my hometown (NYC) today in advance of Tuesday’s release of “The Shadow Docket.”

First up, a *very* early start to join my buddy @PoppyHarlowCNN on @CNNThisMorning (coming up ~6:30 ET). ImageImage
Not sure how much this going to help, but… Image
Taking a quick @orangetheory break… ImageImage
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May 11
1. Starting a running #thread on the decision(s) that come down from #SCOTUS starting at 10:00 ET today.

All we publicly know is that one or more rulings are coming from among the 45 cases that were argued earlier this Term.

How many rulings, and which ones, well... stay tuned.
2. And while we're waiting, if you're not already subscribed to my weekly #SCOTUS newsletter, "One First," it might be a good time to check it out!

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3. The press corps is reporting that there are "three boxes" (literally the boxes from which hard copies of the opinions are distributed).

That doesn't tell us how many we're getting (since we don't know the length of each one), but it probably means ... a bunch.

Here we go...
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Apr 29
Two things can be true:

1. We’re going to disagree re whether specific conduct by individual #SCOTUS Justices crosses the relevant ethical lines; &

2. Institutional accountability requires there to *be* ethical lines, which shouldn’t be up to individual Justices to self-police.
We spend so much energy on (1) that we’re missing why (2) is important: If there was public faith that the Justices were being held to meaningful standards by anyone *other than* the press, there’d be less sensationalism around press reports that may or may not reveal misconduct.
I’ll have a lot more to say about this in Monday’s “One First.” I just think there’s a lot of talking past each other where we’re missing the point on which there ought to be common ground:

An independent judiciary does not mean—and has never meant—an unaccountable judiciary.
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Apr 19
Here's a running #thread on #SCOTUS's decisions in argued cases to be handed down today.

"Two boxes" of opinions in the press room means that we're almost certainly getting *more than* one ruling starting at 10:00 ET.
First (but not last) decision in an argued case is in MOAC Mall Holdings (bankruptcy). Justice Jackson for a unanimous Court holds that section 363(m) is *not* jurisdictional:

supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf…

(This is not a big case outside of bankruptcy law.)

At least one more to go.
A good indicator of why the Court is so far behind in getting rulings out in argued cases: MOAC was argued on December 5, and yet a 15-page, unanimous opinion with no separate concurrences took over four months to get out.
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Apr 19
On #mifepristone, four possible results from #SCOTUS today:

1) Grant stay pending appeal;

2) Deny stay pending appeal;

3) Weird mixed ruling; or

4) No ruling.

(1) means no change to mifepristone access anytime soon; (2)-(4) mean big changes starting Thurs. My money’s on (1).
Also, the Court’s ruling on the stay could come literally at any time today (or, per option (4), not come at all), and there will be no advance public notice that it’s nigh.

We also won’t know the vote count unless four Justices publicly dissent.

Welcome to the shadow docket.
Finally, the Justices already have a busy day ahead; we expect one or more decisions in argued cases starting at 10:00 ET (note: this *won’t* include the mifepristone ruling); and then they’re hearing one regularly scheduled oral argument.

So stay tuned… Image
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