What Is "The Shadow Docket?"

<p>A law in Texas banning abortions after six weeks. The blocking of a majority-Black congressional district in Alabama. OSHA regulations requiring vaccinations or a negative COVID test result. </p><p>All of these controversial issues were decided not through the tried-and-true method of a hearing in the Supreme Court, but rather through a system called "the shadow docket," orders from the court that are (often) unsigned, inscrutable, and handed down in the middle of the night. <a href="https://law.utexas.edu/faculty/stephen-i-vladeck" target="_blank">Professor Stephen Vladeck</a> takes us through this increasingly common phenomenon.</p><p><a href="https://secure3.convio.net/nhpr/site/Donation2?df_id=3651&mfc_pref=T&3651.donation=form1&s_src=jan2023&s_subsrc=shownotes" target="_blank"><strong>IF YOU LOVE OUR WORK, MAKE A DONATION TO SUPPORT CIVICS 101!</strong></a></p><p><i>This episode originally dropped in May, 2022. </i></p>