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Since 2017, the Supreme Court has significantly increased its use of the process by which the justices hear and resolves emergency appeals, sometimes known as the shadow docket. These decisions are made without oral argument and often come in short unsigned orders. Stephen Vladeck, the Charles Alan
In The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic, University of Texas law professor Stephen Vladeck argues that the U.S. Supreme Court is expanding its powers at the expense of the rule of law and public transparency.
Contradictory court orders put the abortion drug mifepristone in "uncharted territory."
Judge Kacsmaryk decided to come after me—even though I’m not involved in that case in any way.
He is the Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts at the University of Texas School of Law.