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Yankee Pyramids

99% Invisible

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The Shadow Docket of the Supreme Court

In recent years, the supreme court seems to be relying more on the so called shadow docket to make decisions in high profile cases. The term is something coined by a law professor named will bode in two thousand and 15. These are not the ordinary way that the supreme court decides cases. There's no extensive rounds of legal briefing. No oral argument decided in advance months ahead of time for all of us to try and figure out if we can attend in person or maybe listened to on line.

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