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Looming Default, SCOTUS Shadow Docket, And 1000 Daily Episodes

The NPR Politics Podcast

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The Court's Shadow Docket

The court has something formally known as the emergency docket, which has always been there to deal with genuine emergencies. But until the last six or so years, it was very rare that the court would intervene. In the Trump administration's meager four years, there were 41 such cases without any explanation from the court and no accounting for how the justices voted.

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