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What Is "The Shadow Docket?"
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A law in Texas banning abortions after six weeks. The blocking of a majority-Black congressional district in Alabama. OSHA regulations requiring vaccinations or a negative COVID test result. All of these controversial issues were decided not through the tried-and-true method of a hearing in the Supreme Court, but rather through a system called "the shadow docket," orders from the court that are (often) unsigned, inscrutable, and handed down in the middle of the night. Professor Stephen Vladeck takes us through this increasingly common phenomenon. IF YOU LOVE OUR WORK, MAKE A DONATION TO SUPPORT CIVICS 101! This episode originally dropped in May, 2022. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to see…