Inside the Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court
The episode investigates the origins of the Supreme Court's increasing reliance on the 'shadow docket' — a system of rapid, unexplained emergency rulings that bypass traditional judicial procedures. This shift, the hosts argue, has allowed the Court to make major policy decisions with
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