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What's a good "scheduler" for Mastodon/Fediverse posts? Like I write 3-4 posts in advance, and schedule them ahead of time?

All of this has happened on the shadow docket. So the Roberts Court has ok’d election cancellation without merits briefing, oral argument, etc.

This would be extraordinary and pernicious enough. But because Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented and pointed out how exceptional and dangerous the Court’s order is, Alito, joined by Gorsuch and Thomas, wrote an opinion basically calling her uppity. 4/

There are almost no times when the Supreme Court has not followed this rule. But the Callais plaintiffs applied to the Court to have the judgment certified right now and tonight the Court ordered this to happen, trying to quash ongoing lawsuits filed to prevent Louisiana’s governor from cancelling the election, a result in no way required by Callais itself. 3/

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On the heels of the awful substantive Supreme Court ruling and opinion in _Callais_, Louisiana’s governor sought to cancel an ongoing election, House primaries, which had begun before the decision was handed down. He ordered cancellation even before the Callais judgment was made final, “certified”. There is a Supreme Court rule which delays certification for 32 days, allowing time for a party to request rehearing. 2/

Tonight, an extraordinary order, opinion, and dissent make explicit that the ongoing cold Second American Civil War is raging at the U.S. Supreme Court, as it is throughout the U.S. 1/

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