Today we learn about the Supreme Court decisions that we don't hear much about; the "shadow docket." These are orders from the highest court in the land that are (often) unsigned, inscrutable, and handed down in the middle of the night. Professor Stephen Vladeck takes us through this increasingly common phenomenon.

The Shadow Docket

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