{"id":969,"date":"2026-07-08T12:38:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=969"},"modified":"2026-07-08T12:38:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:38:40","slug":"the-secret-origins-of-the-supreme-courts-shadow-docket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=969","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Origins of the Supreme Court\u2019s Shadow Docket"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last month,<\/span> the Supreme Court issued a number of landmark opinions involving transgender rights, campaign finance, executive power, and immigration. Those decisions were issued in the traditional way many of us recognize: pages and pages of arguments and citations, with each justice on the record voting yea or nay. But over the last decade, the court\u2014led by Chief Justice John Roberts\u2014has increasingly relied on a fast-track way of making decisions that was once rarely used. It\u2019s known as the shadow docket.<\/p>

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Few reporters have done more to shine light on the shadow docket than New York Times<\/em> investigative journalist Jodi Kantor. Along with her colleague Adam Liptak, Kantor recently published a number of previously undisclosed memos detailing the shadow docket\u2019s unprecedented expansion under the Roberts court.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo many major decisions about presidential power are being made on the shadow docket,\u201d Kantor says. \u201cAnd the question for the Supreme Court is why they\u2019re doing business in this way and why in a lot of these decisions they are not writing opinions.\u201d<\/p>

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On this week\u2019s More To The Story<\/em>, Kantor talks to host Al Letson about what\u2019s driving the Roberts court to bypass the traditional ways of issuing decisions and how that\u2019s affecting public trust in the court. Plus, Kantor looks back at her Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning reporting on sexual abuse allegations against Harvey Weinstein that helped set off the #metoo movement and argues that obituaries for the movement almost 10 years later are dead wrong.<\/p>\n

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