Although #SCOTUS has the raw power to issue the novel "summary reversal" we saw on Monday in the Texas redistricting case, "if nothing else, it ought to drive home the tendentiousness—if not the mendaciousness—of the 'interim docket' label once and for all." Me, in an extra issue of "One First":
223. The Revealing Summary Rev...
223. The Revealing Summary Reversal in LULAC
Monday's one-paragraph order in the Texas redistricting case is both a procedural anomaly and a sharp rejoinder to those who still use the "interim" label to refer to the emergency docket.Steve Vladeck (One First)
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in reply to Steve Vladeck • • •No. It's not tendentiousness or mendaciousness. It's simply a court recognizing practical issues of timing of opinions vs a fast-moving situation with actual harms involved, and taking steps to simply avoid those harms of timing.
Some folks are reading too much into this, circularly arguing that it's really important and therefore worth huge attention and therefore really important.
No, this is merely a bit of paperwork to resolve realities of process.