The New York Times's shadow war against the Supreme Court

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The public has never had a lower opinion of the mass media, and the New York Times story by Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak about the alleged creation of a Supreme Court “shadow docket” is a case study in why. Not only is every premise of the article false, but the entire story is also a transparently partisan attack on the Supreme Court as an institution and Chief Justice John Roberts personally.