Justice Jackson Correctly Defines The John Roberts Supreme Court As The Calvinball Court
Justice Jackson criticizes the Supreme Court's shadow docket, calling it 'Calvinball jurisprudence' with no fixed rules, as it issues consequential rulings without explanation.
From the article: In a broader sense, however, today’s ruling is of a piece with this Court’s recent tendencies. “[R]ight when the Judiciary should be hunkering down to do all it can to preserve the law’s constraints,” the Court opts instead to make vindicating the rule of law and preventing manifestly injurious Government action as difficult as possible….. This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist. Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.
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