Now, for better or worse, the Judicial Conference has shown itself to be pliable by the political currents.
This court will not "make any change to our case assignment process at this time."
Are the ABA and the legal profession doing enough to promote viewpoint diversity?
If Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine lacks standing, so should progressive groups.
In the Trump immunity case, SCOTUS effectively granted a stay without considering the likelihood of success on the merits.
Tillman on most things: "There are multiple aspects of the standard narrative ... that just don’t make any sense and that people just have mindlessly repeated for almost two centuries now,”
At most, Smith’s temporary position is properly characterized as a mere “employee.” To paraphrase Justice Scalia’s Morrison v. Olson dissent, this employee came as an employee.
The top 8 teams presented oral argument in Moody v. NetChoice.
"Surreptitious Steps" to draw a Carter appointee in a deep red state demonstrate why the Judicial Conference's policy would not work.
The Shadow Docket giveth, The Shadow Docket taketh away
The worst offender is not Jim Ho, but Carl Stewart.
The center of the Court wants to push back on temporary administrative stays and the Fifth Circuit.
Rather than addressing bankruptcy and patent forum and judge shopping, on which there is a large bipartisan consensus, the Judicial Conference rushed through a botched proposal in response to political pressure and Twitter noise.
It will be harder for conservative litigants in blue states and liberal litigants in red states to obtain statewide relief. It will be harder for conservative litigants in red states to obtain nationwide relief. Liberal litigants will have virtually unchanged odds to obtain nationwide relief.
A general power to issue orders to judicial employees does not trump a specific power for district courts to make their own rules about case assignments.
And how many of those judges have issued national injunctions?
"It is Congress that decides how cases should be assigned in the inferior courts and Congress has already spoken on this issue in an enacted statute."
The way to depoliticize the courts is to depoliticize the courts.
The Chief Justice and his associates target only one type of forum shopping in response to political criticism through a secret policy that will not be released for months.
