Does the Supreme Court Use Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic?

?“AMERICANS OF ALL POLITICAL STRIPES SHOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT WHAT THE SHADOW DOCKET PORTENDS FOR THE RULE OF LAW.”?

“Since 2017, the Court has dramatically expanded its use of the behind-the-scenes “shadow docket,” regularly making decisions that affect millions of Americans without public hearings and without explanation, through cryptic late-night rulings that leave lawyers—and citizens—scrambling.”?

https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Docket-Supreme-Undermine-Republic/dp/1541602633/ref=asc_df_1541602633/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=598238948844&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=3599696765253296598&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1025197&hvtargid=pla-1752174518103&psc=1

"I HAD THE HONOR THIS TERM OF WRITING I THINK THE ONLY SUPREME COURT DECISION IN THE HISTORY OF THAT INSTITUTION THAT HAS BEEN LAMBASTED BY A WHOLE STRING OF FOREIGN LEADERS WHO FELT PERFECTLY FINE COMMENTING ON AMERICAN LAW,”? Samuel Anthony Alito Jr.

https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/american-law-does-embrace-spirit-magna-carta-william-gooding/?trackingId=Gxb%2Bcy3T7VWhUqbDL%2F4eWA%3D%3D

?“On the evening of April 7, 1775, when Samuel Johnson made his famous pronouncement “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel,” he was not saying, I think, that it was wrong to love your country. Indeed, Dr Johnson was renowned for combining robust patriotic enthusiasm with his Enlightenment views and a tender conscience that championed the rights of men and women and even animals worldwide. He was particularly strident in his condemnation of the excesses of Britain’s colonial project.”

"In the word of ideas, this translates as a retreat to the known, even in the face of contradictory evidence, because the fear and the demonisation of others that ensue prevent self-reflection."

"For this reason, tribalism should not be romanticised, whether among Rousseauian New Agers, religious literalists, football fanatics, or in today’s populism – for it depends on the demonisation of the other and is hard-wired. We should take care not to regress to this, for the simple reason that we are?able?to."

“The key to understanding Johnson’s controversial statement is in the central word?refuge. The patriotic urge, I suspect he was saying, is frequently underpinned by an unexamined refuge instinct we cling to when the going gets tough. Here we need a little neuropsychology to flesh this out.”

“The retreat to nationalism is often a flight movement born out of the mobilisation of the Sympathetic branch of our Autonomic Nervous System, our inner instinctual safety mechanism. In times of fear, or unconsciously anxiety, the tough get going, as we know. Physiologically, we close out hearts, experience other people as?other?and the word as hostile; we fly to where we can wall ourselves in and be safe.

In the word of ideas, this translates as a retreat to the known, even in the face of contradictory evidence, because the fear and the demonisation of others that ensue prevent self-reflection. Our most ancient instincts, sometimes called?reptilian, overwhelm the neocortex where already our visual systems are scanning for those who look different to us. Socially, the tribal response is usually to shoot first and ask questions later; larger political units exist essentially to overcome this instinct and maintain semi-porous national boundaries, as Jared Diamond patiently explained in?The World Until Yesterday.”

https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/patriotism-last-refuge-scoundrel-william-gooding/