Samuel Alito’s Assault on Wetlands Is So Indefensible That He Lost Brett Kavanaugh
"The Supreme Court dealt a devastating blow to the nation’s wetlands by rewriting a statute the court does not like to mean something it does not mean"
"The majority crossed through the word “adjacent” and replaced it with a new test that’s designed to give landowners maximum latitude to fill in or build upon some of the most valuable ecosystems on earth."
Samuel Alito’s Assault on Wetlands Is So Indefensible That He Lost Brett Kavanaugh
The Supreme Court and 'The Shadow Docket'
"The shadow, or emergency, docket, is the way many cases today, sometimes hugely consequential cases, are decided, without full briefing or oral argument, and without any written opinion."
"In just four years, the Trump Justice Department asked the court for emergency relief an astounding 41 times, and the court actually granted all or part of those requests in 28 of the cases."
