{"id":21,"date":"2026-05-24T13:41:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T13:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2026-05-24T13:41:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T13:41:50","slug":"shadow-docket-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Shadow docket&#8221; reform?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><p>A programming note: We are observing Memorial Day on Monday, so you will next receive the SCOTUStoday newsletter on Tuesday.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/?p=16\">A history of Supreme Court leaks<\/a><\/p><div><h2>At the Court<\/h2><div><div><div><p>On Thursday, the Supreme Court released its decisions in <em>Havana Docks Corporation v. Royal Caribbean Cruises<\/em> and <em>M&amp;K Employee Solutions v. Trustees of the IAM National Pension Fund<\/em>. It also dismissed <em>Hamm v. Smith<\/em> as improvidently granted.<\/p><ul><li>In <em>Havana<\/em>, the court, by a vote of 8-1, ruled in favor of a U.S. business that, in a lawsuit against several cruise lines, is seeking to recover for its losses under a 1996 law that targets the Cuban regime. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the majority opinion, and Justice Elena Kagan penned a rare solo dissent.<\/li><li>In <em>M&amp;K<\/em>, a unanimous court held that ERISA provisions governing the calculation of withdrawal liability from an underfunded multiemployer pension plan do not require that actuaries use assumptions adopted prior to the measurement date. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson authored the opinion of the court.<\/li><li>In <em>Hamm<\/em>, the court considered how and whether to assess a claim under <em>Atkins v. Virginia<\/em> (which prohibited the execution of people who are intellectually disabled) when a defendant has taken multiple IQ tests. The vote was effectively 5-4, with Justices Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch and Chief Justice John Roberts opposing the decision to dismiss the case as improvidently granted.<\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><div><div><p>After the opinion announcements, the justices met in a private conference to discuss cases and vote on petitions for review. Orders from Thursday\u2019s conference are expected on Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. EDT.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div><div><p>Also on Thursday, the court denied    for a stay of execution from Tony Carruthers, whose previous request was  on Tuesday. Tennessee began his execution, but called it off after officials failed to find a vein.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div><div><p>The court also denied   for a stay of execution from Richard Knight, who was sentenced to death in 2006. Knight was executed in Florida hours later.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div><div><p>The court has indicated that it may announce opinions on Thursday, May 28, at 10 a.m. EDT. We will be live blogging that morning beginning at 9:30.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div><h2>Morning Reads<\/h2><div><div><h3>House Democrats take on the Supreme Court shadow docket<\/h3><p>Benjamin S. Weiss, Courthouse News Service<\/p><div><p>On Thursday, Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland, \u201cunveiled a package of legislation he said would shine a spotlight on the Supreme Court\u2019s shadow docket and demystify the justices\u2019 secretive and often unexplained emergency orders,\u201d according to Courthouse News Service. The legislation \u201cwould attempt to address the opaque nature of the shadow docket by requiring the Supreme Court to issue public legal justification for orders issued from the emergency pool within seven days.\u201d \u201cCourts don\u2019t lose authority when they explain themselves \u2013 that\u2019s where their legitimacy comes from,\u201d Raskin said to Courthouse News Service.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div><h3>Trump fires warning shot at SCOTUS as major citizenship showdown looms: \u2018It will be a disaster\u2019<\/h3><p>Ashley J. DiMella, Fox News<\/p><div><p>Speaking Thursday from the Oval Office, President Donald Trump predicted a loss for his administration in the Supreme Court\u2019s birthright citizenship case, which addresses his \u201cJanuary 2025 executive order seeking to limit automatic citizenship for some children born in the U.S.\u201d Such a ruling \u201cwould be a disgrace,\u201d the president said, adding that the justices will \u201cprobably rule against me because they seem to like doing that.\u201d \u201cYou know, frankly, I\u2019m not happy with some of the decisions,\u201d Trump said.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div><h3>Gun activists ask Supreme Court to block Maryland\u2019s ban on firearms at \u2018sensitive places\u2019<\/h3><p>Stephen Dinan, The Washington Times<\/p><div><p>In a  filed this week, a \u201ccoalition of gun-rights groups has asked the Supreme Court to step in and block a Maryland law that bars even concealed-carry permit holders from carrying firearms at \u2018sensitive places\u2019 such as state parks, museums and mass transit,\u201d according to The Washington Times. The groups contend that \u201cthe heart of the Second Amendment\u2019s right to bear arms is personal protection\u201d and that \u201cstates can abridge that right in locations only when the state itself provides armed guards and screening, such as a courthouse.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div><div><h3>An Early Look at Scalia-Ginsburg Friendship<\/h3><p>Ed Whelan, Confirmation Tales<\/p><div><p>In a post for his Substack, Ed Whelan revisited \u201cthe remarkable story\u201d of how Patrick Schiltz, who is now chief judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, came to clerk for then-Judge Antonin Scalia, which involved a \u201cnon-interview interview\u201d and a competing offer from then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Schiltz told Whelan that, upon learning of Ginsburg\u2019s offer, Scalia \u201cspoke highly of her, and told me I could not go wrong\u201d with either job. When Schiltz told Scalia that he \u201cwanted to clerk for him\u201d but was worried about insulting Ginsburg, Scalia helped him deliver the news. \u201cHe picked up the phone, called Judge Ginsburg, and said: \u2018Ruth, I\u2019ve got Patrick Schiltz in my office. I told him that he can\u2019t leave until he accepts my offer. He has a plane to catch, so he accepted. Blame me,\u2019\u201d Schiltz recalled, adding that he \u201ccould hear her on the other line telling Judge Scalia that she thought\u201d Scalia and Schiltz \u201cwere a great match.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div><h2>On Site<\/h2><div><div><div><div><span>From the SCOTUSblog Team<\/span><h3>Court sidesteps death-row IQ dispute <\/h3><p>By <!-- -->Amy Howe<\/p><p>The Supreme Court on Thursday left in place a ruling by a federal appeals court in favor of an Alabama man who has been on that state\u2019s death row for more than two decades. In a one-sentence, unsigned order, the court dismissed Alabama\u2019s petition for review in Hamm v. Smith as \u201cimprovidently granted\u201d \u2013 that is, without deciding it. That order leaves undisturbed a ruling holding that Joseph Smith is intellectually disabled and therefore cannot be executed.<\/p><\/div><div><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/37ef3d14edc88a080b7d8175441aef6a-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/37ef3d14edc88a080b7d8175441aef6a-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/37ef3d14edc88a080b7d8175441aef6a-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/37ef3d14edc88a080b7d8175441aef6a-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/37ef3d14edc88a080b7d8175441aef6a-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/37ef3d14edc88a080b7d8175441aef6a.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div><div><div><span>Opinion Analysis<\/span><h3>Court rules against cruise lines in Cuban confiscation case<\/h3><p>By <!-- -->Amy Howe<\/p><p>More than 65 years after the confiscation by Cuba\u2019s communist government of assets owned by U.S. businesses there, the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in favor of a U.S. business that is seeking to recover for its losses under a 1996 law that targets the Cuban regime. By a vote of 8-1, the justices ruled that Havana Docks, a U.S. company that before 1960 had owned a right to use and operate the docks in the port of Havana, is potentially entitled to receive hundreds of millions of dollars for the use of the port by cruise lines between 2016 and 2019, even if the company\u2019s control of the docks would have expired in 2004.<\/p><\/div><div><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/b95e20bf074baddde1c7d61921fcda79-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/b95e20bf074baddde1c7d61921fcda79-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/b95e20bf074baddde1c7d61921fcda79-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/b95e20bf074baddde1c7d61921fcda79-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/b95e20bf074baddde1c7d61921fcda79-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/b95e20bf074baddde1c7d61921fcda79.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div><div><div><span>From the SCOTUSblog Team<\/span><h3>Court puts off deciding whether to consider $5 million verdict against Trump \u2013 yet again<\/h3><p>By <!-- -->Amy Howe<\/p><p>A high-profile petition for review from President Donald Trump asking the court to review the $5 million jury verdict against him in a sexual abuse and defamation case filed by journalist E. Jean Carroll has been fully briefed since January. It was originally scheduled for a February conference, but the justices have rescheduled it 11 times this winter and spring. There is no way to know what is going on behind the scenes, but the delay may be related to a separate defamation case involving Carroll.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/?p=7\">A history of Supreme Court leaks<\/a><\/p><\/div><div><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/46a2e2659f120ff450def4f4d3eae696-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/46a2e2659f120ff450def4f4d3eae696-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/46a2e2659f120ff450def4f4d3eae696-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/46a2e2659f120ff450def4f4d3eae696-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/46a2e2659f120ff450def4f4d3eae696-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/46a2e2659f120ff450def4f4d3eae696.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div><h2>Podcasts<\/h2><div><div><div><div><span>Advisory Opinions<\/span><h3>All the Things Wrong with Trump\u2019s Billion-Dollar Fund<\/h3><p>Sarah Isgur and David French analyze President Donald Trump\u2019s $1.776 billion \u201canti-weaponization\u201d fund through the lens of three legal \u201cbuckets,\u201d and talk about how federal appropriations work and the Obama-era case that hangs over this legal issue.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div><div><div>A Closer Look<\/div><h3>Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks <\/h3><\/div><div><p>Coverage of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson\u2019s Monday night remarks in Washington primarily focused on her critiques of the court\u2019s decision to immediately finalize its ruling in the Louisiana redistricting case and her concerns about the court appearing partisan in an election year. And while those may have been the most newsworthy things she said, Jackson also spoke on her upbringing in Miami, the \u201ccrazy\u201d environment that came with her Supreme Court appointment, and why she believes Justice Stephen Breyer offered her a clerkship.<\/p><p>The conversation, moderated by U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel at the American Law Institute\u2019s annual meeting, opened with Jackson reading from the preface of <em>Lovely One<\/em>, her memoir published in 2024.<\/p><p>From there, Jackson walked the audience through her family\u2019s story (\u201ca family of strivers,\u201d she called them) with the help of a slideshow of photographs, pausing on images of her grandparents, who migrated from Georgia to Miami in 1939 in search of greater opportunity. Jackson explained that her grandfather started a gardening business and put all five of his children through college. \u201cHe knew that that was going to be the key,\u201d Jackson said, \u201cMaking that investment in education was going to be the way in which our family would be able to survive and improve.\u201d She also described how her aunt, who was working as a missionary in West Africa when Jackson was born, sent a list of African names to her mother, from which her mother chose the name Ketanji Onyika, meaning \u201clovely one.\u201d<\/p><p>Jackson then explained that, while she was still a child, her father made a mid-career change from teaching history in D.C. to attending the University of Miami Law School. \u201cI actually never thought you could do anything other than be a lawyer,\u201d Jackson said. \u201cBecause that\u2019s what I knew, you know, when you grow up on the campus of a law school, education becomes what you know, law became what I was interested in from that young.\u201d<\/p><p>Prompted by Gergel, Jackson added that her father eventually became the lawyer for the school board for the Dade County Public School district, and that is what she and Breyer connected over during her clerkship interview. \u201cI am to this day convinced I got the interview or got the job with Justice Breyer because Justice Breyer\u2019s father was the lawyer for the school board in San Francisco. And he was so excited when he heard that, he thought he had something in common with me.\u201d<\/p><p>Jackson also shared a story from her memoir about a defining moment in high school, when a store clerk followed her around a shop while her white classmates moved freely. She described going home to her grandmother, who urged her not to let it define her. \u201cAnd don\u2019t let them get inside you,\u201d her grandmother told her.<\/p><p>When asked what life had been like since her nomination to the court, Jackson said that \u201cit\u2019s only been four years that I\u2019ve been on the court and it\u2019s like overnight your life changes. &#8230; You go from being a relatively anonymous judge in the world to being someone that people recognize.\u201d<\/p><p>When the conversation turned to the court\u2019s emergency docket \u2013 a concern Jackson has raised before, including during a lecture at Yale Law School earlier this year \u2013 she reprised her criticism of the court increasingly intervening in cases still pending before lower courts, often without full briefing or argument. She proposed two remedies: a threshold requirement of genuine urgency before intervention, and a reordering of the factors the court applies, putting irreparable harm ahead of likelihood of success on the merits.<\/p><p>Perhaps her most pointed comments came when Gergel raised <em>Louisiana v. Callais<\/em>, the Voting Rights Act case. Jackson talked about dissenting from the court\u2019s decision to shorten its standard 32-day waiting period before finalizing the ruling, and said the court had deviated from that practice over a party\u2019s objection only two or three times in roughly 25 years. As USA Today reported, Jackson said the court has \u201cto be really, really careful in this environment when we\u2019re dealing with issues that have a political overlay,\u201d and that \u201cpublic confidence is really all the judiciary has.\u201d<\/p><p>Asked finally about her many dissents, Jackson said that she agreed with her colleague Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who \u201csaid that dissents are really written for a future age, that they lay down a marker for the future.\u201d \u201cDissents, I think, are one of the most extraordinary aspects of the American legal tradition, because they actually embody one of our core values, the idea of freedom of expression and tolerance of minority views,\u201d Jackson added. \u201cThis is something that is integral to who we are as Americans, and we have a practice that allows for that.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div><div><h2>SCOTUS Quote<\/h2><div><div><p>JUSTICE SCALIA: \u201cWhat is the ambiguity we are talking about?\u201d<br\/><br\/>MR. 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