Alarm sounds as Roberts Supreme Court boosts Trump again and again

[gfarber]

4. The Roberts Court's Shadow Docket

There once was a court cloaked in night,
Where rulings escaped public sight.
With briefs short and terse,
They’d favor Trump first—
Then vanish 'fore morning’s full light.

No hearings, no long-winded talk,
Just whispers behind the court’s lock.
Twenty-one times they’d say,
“Trump, you may have your way!”—
Justice speed-run around proper rock.

When blocked by the law’s old refrain,
The DOJ boards the “shadow” train.
“Appeals take too long!
Let’s skip to the strong!”
And presto—Trump wins yet again.

Said Sacks, “They’re snug in his coat,
Where reason and fairness don’t float.
The Court’s been inclined
To help Trump unwind
The limits that Congress once wrote.”

With orders that strain every clause,
They danced round the rule of the laws.
The Court kept the beat,
Made Trump’s power complete—
And the Constitution paused for applause.