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John, the Supreme
Court’s "shadow docket" was supposed to be for real emergencies. But now,
it’s been weaponized.
When Trump loses in a lower court, he runs straight to the Supreme Court
to use the "shadow docket" hoping the conservative justices will bail him
out.
No hearing, no arguments, hardly any real explanation. Just a one- or
two-line order that lets him keep doing exactly what a lower court just
said he couldn't.
More often than not, it works. This is a loophole — and Trump is running
through it faster than any president before him. He hit the same number of
emergency appeals in about five months of his second term that it took the
entire Biden presidency to reach.^1
The result? Immigrants lose protections overnight. Civil servants get
pushed out with no due process. The legal limits on presidential power
quietly disappear.
This is what a captured Court looks like. Untethered from the
Constitution, no transparency, and shifting their own legal standards in
ways that make it easier for Trump and entrenched power to win.
Demand Justice PAC is exposing this scheme and building the public and
political pressure to force real reform. Ethics rules, an expanded bench,
and structural changes that end government-by-shadow-docket for good.
But exposing a rigged system takes resources. Building the pressure to
actually fix it takes more.
[ [link removed] ]Will you chip in $5 to Demand Justice PAC right now to
help us keep dragging Trump and the Court's abuses into the light? A
captured Court only stays captured if we let it.
[ [link removed] ]Donate $5 ››
Thank you,
Team Demand Justice PAC
1 — [ [link removed] ]Brennan Center for Justice
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