#lower-courts

#lower-courts

U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs ruled that the assault on the university brazenly violated the First Amendment by mandating conformity with the administration's views-though she also set Harvard on a winding path of additional litigation to restore the canceled grants. In one remarkable passage, Burroughs also criticized the Supreme Court's cryptic shadow docket decisions, then condemned the justices for scolding lower courts that are unable to divine the meaning of these cryptic orders.

But that's what a bunch of judges did - anonymously - to NBC News about the foreshadowed shadow docket. (Yes, we will continue to refer to SCOTUS's emergency docket as the shadow docket- a term penned by Professor William Baude from the University of Chicago, no matter the desires of Brett Kavanaugh because it more accurately reflects the shady ass shit the Court is doing with it.)