techdirt: The Judiciary Is Breaking Down: Federal Judges Now Openly Revolt Against SCOTUS Shadow Docket During Live Court Hearing<\/a> by Mike Masnick:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n We\u2019ve been tracking the growing judicial revolt against the Supreme Court\u2019s shadow docket nonsense, from individual district judges getting snarky in footnotes<\/a> to anonymous judges speaking to reporters<\/a>. But what happened Thursday at the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals crosses into entirely new territory: a full en banc panel of federal judges openly criticizing the Supreme Court\u2019s approach<\/a> during a live oral argument session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This isn\u2019t normal. Federal judges don\u2019t usually air their grievances about the Supreme Court in open court. The fact that an entire appeals court panel\u2014including respected conservative judges\u2014turned their oral argument into what Politico called \u201ca remarkable, 80-minute venting session\u201d tells you everything about how broken the system has become.<\/p>\n\n\n\n