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The Shadow Docket with Steve Vladeck

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The Politics of the Supreme Court in the Shadow Docket

Every single issue that's in the federal courts anywhere is now getting to the Supreme Court through emergency applications. And unlike the early 1980s, when those interventions were all about executions, now each intervention is having a massive impact on millions of people. The best predictor of how the court's going to handle any high profile emergency application with a partisan valence is the partisan valence.

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