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The Shadow Docket: The Supreme Court Power You've Never Heard Of
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Somewhere in Washington this week, the Supreme Court will decide something that affects your life — and you may never know why. No hearing. No explanation. Sometimes not even a signature. It's called the emergency docket, better known as the "shadow docket," and over the last decade it has gone from a quiet technical corner of the Court to one of the most powerful and most disputed tools in American government. In this edition of the Behind the Story Expose series, Jelani Gonzalez breaks down...