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Procedural questions. they blocked california's in-home gathering restrictions on religious liberty grounds. the fact that the court lacked the power to issue the order in question. it feels in a lot of ways like the court is using the shadow docket the way that republicans use these local government orders and these laws to try to get through legislation like what they call the sue thy neighbor bill, what they can't get by asking the majority. they just sneak it through in sneaky ways. is that a wrong way to look at it? >> they are cowards. let's not forget the dripping, flaming cowardice of ...

Which makes asylum seekers await in mexico. the trump administration had positive rulings in 28 out of the 41 emergency applications from their doj and were only denied four times. those rulings include trump's travel ban, the ban on trans people in the military and the go ahead for the administration to execute people with lethal injections. the senate judiciary committee will hold a hearing on this. elli, you wrote -- this is what was written about this shadow docket that most people don't know much about. the ruling justiied its non-intervention by flagging

Much about this. it feels, in a lot of ways, like the court is using the shadow docket the way that republicans use these local government orders and the sort of laws to try to get through legislation like what they are calling the soothe a neighbor bill in texas, but they cannot get by asking the majority. you know what i? mean they are not getting it from the majority, so they just sneak it through and sneaky ways. is that a wrong way to look at it? >> they are also cowards, right? let's not forget the dripping flaming cowardice of not even being able to sign your name to the opinion, rippin...

Paragraph opinion have overruled 48 years of precedent, without even bothering to mention roe v. wade in their unsigned opinion. the whole thing is outrageous. and the idea that one little judge in the island of austin in the middle of texas is going to change that supreme court reality is ridiculous. >> this shadow docket i find absolutely fascinating. i know there are times when a shadow docket is required. but in this case, given the high profile nature, the passions around it, it is extraordinary the only ones to write about their reasonings for opposing it were the three liberal justices,...

>> so this legislation, liz, where does it stand now, and then the legal implications going forward are what? >> reporter: the constitutionality of this law is still yet to be determined. that's what we saw when the supreme court failed to act on wednesday night. and we've seen an increase of these shadow docket decisions that legal scholars are concerned about, not only in the volume of the decisions, there are more of them happening and that late-nighttiming before a holiday weekend, i don't think was a mistake. those sort of late-night decisions, one was pushed through right before thanksgi...