Jodi Kantor

I mean, as you say, the chief justice we see in public speaks in kind of magisterial tones and has cultivated a reputation for being conservative, but very cautious and even-handed.

And you get a different chief justice in these papers.

He's pushing really hard for the court to do something really fast, to go to a place that's never gone before.

And when his colleagues...

raised serious objections.

You know, they say, I'm worried about this.

This is weird.

This is irregular.

We've never done this before.

He's pretty dismissive.

And he says, you know, we just have to do it because this regulation is so expensive.

And then, you know, the other striking thing is the contrast between what the court put out publicly, which is like almost nothing.

Like these...

Some of these shadow docket opinions are not really opinions.

They're just orders.

They're like a paragraph or two.

They contain no legal reasoning.

And then in the memos, you get to see what the justices were really thinking.

I mean, you know, I'm sitting here in the New York Times conference room talking to you.

And I have to tell you, the Times has really expanded and built out our Supreme Court coverage.