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The Department of Education has been gutted of its staff, critical National Institute of Health research has been canceled, 16,000 federal workers have been fired, and $4 billion allocated by Congress is going ignored – these are just a few of the unprecedented changes President Donald Trump has made with permission directly from the Supreme Court.
Over the last few months, the Supreme Court’s justices have helped expand Trump’s presidential power over critical aspects of American life, without offering any explanation for their actions through the mysterious “shadow docket.”
The shadow docket, a cryptic name for the court’s time-sensitive, emergency requests, was coined in 2015. It’s perhaps most well-known for hosting 11th-hour requests from death row inmates hoping to stop executions.
But Trump has specifically turned the docket into something else – a place where a president can quickly request intervention without lengthy
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