Supreme Court signals it's feeling the heat amid backlash to 'shadow docket' rulings

[turbinetree]

By Nicole Charky-Chami
Published February 4, 2026 3:48 PM ET

The Supreme Court has started showing signs that justices are aware of the growing public frustration around its shadow docket, a New York Times reporter said Wednesday.

Jodi Kantor, a Times investigative reporter, told MS NOW's Katy Tur that mounting criticism of the conservative majority's court and its recent decisions — which sometimes have just one sentence — has revealed a shifting tone among the justices.

In her recent book, Justice Amy Coney Barrett acknowledged that the court sometimes doesn’t explain itself “because it doesn't feel ready to commit to reasoning,” Kantor said.

https://www.rawstory.com/supreme-court-public-frustration/

Hey Tur ...................does your husband over at CBS have NDA ..................just asking for a friend............

[Kid Berwyn]

1. Toin it up!

Six of nine deserve it to be hot as Hell.

[B.See]

6. 6 of 9 deserve to be

locked the fk up.

[turbinetree]

7. This..............

[enough]

2. "doesn't feel ready to commit to reasoning"

Or: “doesn’t feel obliged to commit to reasoning”

“Reasoning? Reasoning? We don’t need no stinkin reasoning.”

True MAGA mind.

[dalton99a]

3. Meh. The Trump Supreme Whorehouse is brazen and shameless.

[Raven123]

4. Sounds like SCOTUS is just plain lazy. Bought and paid for. Why work?

[Sunlight]

5. "because it doesn't feel ready to commit to reasoning"

Wow -- she really said the quiet part out loud, that they decide simply based on the result they want, not on what an analysis of the law says the result should be.

[2naSalit]

8. Yup...

That's what I got out of that.

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