How the shadow docket is changing justice at the Supreme Court
“The best predictor of how the court is going to rule on a divisive contested shadow docket application is the partisan valence of the case.”
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“The best predictor of how the court is going to rule on a divisive contested shadow docket application is the partisan valence of the case.”
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.
Steve Vladeck says conservative majority is bypassing public scrutiny with unsigned orders on religion, abortion and more
"They're their own masters," one legal expert said of the Supreme Court, adding that the justices policing themselves is an institutional problem.
The court has disposed of only 15 cases, with 44 cases yet to be decided before the usual conclusion of the term in June.