The Supreme Court makes nearly all its decisions on the emergency relief docket or "shadow docket."
What is the Supreme Court "shadow docket?"
The court's emergency docket is where justices make quick decisions to address emergency relief requests and other procedural matters.
But the vast majority of orders that reach the emergency docket are of little interest to the general public.
The dangers posed by the shadow docket are more perilous than the wrongs of individual justices, Vladeck argues, because the shadow docket's ills are inherently institutional.
Persons:
Steve Vladeck, —, Vladeck, mifepristone, William Baude, Nathan Howard, it's, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Roe, Wade, Obama, Bush, Trump, Nadine Seiler, Harper, Drew Angerer, stokes
Organizations:
Service, Supreme, Supreme Court, University of Chicago, Capitol Police, Getty, —
Locations:
Texas, U.S, Moore