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The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

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The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic - Vladeck, Stephen
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"The Supreme Court has always had the authority to issue emergency rulings--halting an execution or preventing a law from going into effect until lower courts could rule on its constitutionality--but until recently, it did so only in exceptional circumstances and issued only narrow rulings. Yet in the past decade, the court has expanded its use of the behind-the-scenes 'shadow docket' dramatically, handing down major decisions that impact millions of Americans without oral argument or signed opinions, and often without any ...

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The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic 2023, Basic Books

ISBN-13: 9781541602632

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