A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, a Jedi knight named Daniel Ellsberg broke the Pentagon Papers story by leaking a series of Pentagon studies to the NY Times demonstrating that President Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert MacNamara had lied about their plans to enlarge the US engagement in Vietnam. Many DeSantis drones are now scouring Snap and IG looking for Ellsberg's accounts thinking "I'm pretty sure I've followed his restaurant recommendations..."
Now we have the Supreme Court Shadow Papers- the story broke in the NY Times on Saturday. The Times obtained from someone or some people a series of Supreme Court Justices memos in 2016 over a period of five days, started by Chief Justice John Roberts (motto: "Doing more than calling balls and strikes behind the scenes") who was desperate to stop the Obama Administration and the EPA from imposing new restrictions on power plants so as to halt the global warming crisis. Roberts wanted to grant a stay application of the EPA plan after the DC appellate court refused to do so. As the Times posits, based on a series of opinions by legal experts other than Rumpole, this was the start of the current Supreme Court shadow docket. No more would conservatives live and die by the maxim that judges should not legislate. Now conservative supreme court justices would legislate if the challenged law offended their sensibilities, as the EPA rules surely did- because to follow the rules, states and power companies would incur billions and billions of extra expenses, and Roberts couldn't allow Obama and his minions to be correct about global warming- especially at the expense of corporate bottom lines.
As the Times powerfully points out, nowhere in any of the Justices' memos that flew back and forth was there even the barest mention of the dangers of global warming.
The article is here, and it is worth a read for anyone other than ASAs who are too busy writing "victim wants max!" on their plea sheets for Monday.
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