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Critics say the Supreme Court's emergency rulings are usually made without oral arguments or opinions, muddying an already obscure process.
What happens at the Supreme Court is possible only because of the evolution of the shadow docket.
A relative rarity until the Trump administration, in just four years, his Trump Justice Department asked the court for emergency relief an astounding 41 times.
In past instances of public criticism, the court has occasionally changed its ways.