The title sounds more like a thriller than a legal treatise. The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court uses stealth rulings to amass power and undermine the republic" — and the author, University of ...

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Over the weekend, The New York Times published a trove of personal memos from the members of the Supreme Court outlining the court’s promiscuous use of the so-called shadow docket. It has become the ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The Supreme Court holds more power than it used to and, thanks to its “shadow docket, ...