‘War zone’: Multiple Federal Judges Unite in Blistering Supreme Court Warning

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A majority of federal judges who spoke with The New York Times recently—many of them appointed by Republican presidents—are sounding the alarm on the Supreme Court’s increased use of its emergency docket, also known as a “shadow docket,” a process by which rulings are made unsigned and without written opinions.

“I can’t think of words to capture the significance that federal judges themselves have to speak out, because the Supreme Court has given them no choice but to speak out,” said former federal judge J. Michael Luttig, speaking with The New York Times in a report published Saturday.

The Times spoke with more than five dozen active federal judges to