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Bloomberg Law has:

Kavanaugh Pushes New Label for Supreme Court Emergency Docket

Justice Brett Kavanaugh is doing his best to rebrand the Supreme Court’s emergency docket — known colloquially as the “shadow docket” by another name. “I think the term ‘interim docket’ best captures it,” Kavanaugh told attendees at the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit’s conference in Memphis on Thursday, after he was asked to “settle” the dispute over what to call the justices’ oft-criticized practice of issuing brief orders in pending cases without explanation.

[Law360 has 'Tone Matters,' Justice Kavanaugh Tells Fellow Judges -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh said the judiciary should recommit to using cool-headed and civil language in their writing and spoke about the difficulties the court faces in handling a flood of emergency relief cases at a conference Thursday.]

Barrett Found Marathon Bomber Death Sentence Vote ‘Distasteful’ -- Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett said she found it “distasteful” to affirm the death sentence of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev based on her personal opposition to capital punishment.

Justice Barrett Says Trump Barbs a Dance ‘We’ve Seen Before’ -- Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett downplayed President Donald Trump’s sharp barbs directed at federal judges, telling a New York crowd that US presidents have a long history of criticizing the judiciary.

ABA Journal has After more than 40 years in the solicitor general’s office, this lawyer says it was a privilege -- When Edwin S. Kneedler joined the Office of the Solicitor General in 1979, Warren E. Burger was the chief justice, and no women had ever served on the court. He says that, at that time, there was significantly less public attention on the justices, the role of the high court and the lawyers arguing each case. ... Before retiring from government service in June, Kneedler, 79, argued 160 times before the Supreme Court. He joined the solicitor general’s office after four years in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. He was promoted to deputy solicitor general in 1993 and also briefly served as acting solicitor general in 2009. ... Appellate work appealed to Kneedler because it often entailed meticulous research, satisfying his inquisitive nature and fascination with U.S. history.

And Chemerinsky: SCOTUS rulings on shadow docket cases should be fully heard before becoming binding precedent