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“Resignation Dogs.”

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What Is the Shadow Docket?

The shadow docket is the docket of emergency appeals that come to the court in an expedited basis. They are often emergency appeals that have to be decided of the moment, they don't have the same kind of full briefing or oral arguments as regular cases. The administration really pushed for a lot of rulings on the docket during the trump administration. And sometimes those shadow docket decisions would then trickle into the court's merit docket.

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