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Mark Histed
@markhisted.org

This is what the Roberts Court did in the NIH grant cancellation cases, and the mass firing (RIF and probationary) cases too: allow the Trump actions to continue as the cases make their way through the courts. It’s a move to stay below the radar while the Court supports the Trump admin. 1/2

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social

Chief Justice Roberts has issued an “administrative” stay In the ballroom case—which effectively allows Trump to keep doing what he’s doing while the full Court decides whether to let him keep working indefinitely while the case moves forward (which it probably will, given this intervention).

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Mark Histed
@markhisted.org

In the case of the probationary employee firings, the shadow docket slow-walk from SCOTUS worked. A judge ruled the firings illegal — and yet said too much time had passed and it was too late to return them to their jobs. www.npr.org/2025/09/25/n...

npr.orgA judge ruled their firings were illegal. The government got to do it anywayA judge ruled the firing of thousands of federal employees was illegal. But he stopped short of ordering the government to reinstate them, predicting the Supreme Court would overturn it.
Mark Histed
@markhisted.org

everyone needs to care about how the Roberts Court is actively, but quietly, helping Trump enact his agenda. We are in a separation of powers fight, a fight for constitutional meaning, and a fight with the conservative politicians on the corrupt Court.

Mark Histed@markhisted.org

The Battle over the Constitution Has Spread to American Science. I'm out in the @theatlantic.com today about the new OMB proposed rule. It's just the longtime agenda of the the Supreme Court. US science and cancer cures now all depend on us picking up a fight with the Roberts Court.

theatlantic.comThe Unitary Executive Takes Over New TerritoryThe Trump administration’s theory of how the federal government should work is a threat to American science.