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Supreme Court crossed a line no one noticed on America’s biggest cases

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The Supreme Court continues to make consequential rulings in the shadows. I analyzed tens of thousands of case files from the court’s online archives , parsing through filings to separate simple requests for deadline extensions from challenges to long-established constitutional rights. I discovered that in the term that ended in 2025, the justices issued more substantive decisions on their emergency docket than in cases argued in open court. Experts told me this was likely the first time this has happened in the court’s modern history. Representatives from the Supreme Court did not respond to my questions. Since I reported that story in July, more major rulings have been made on the emergency docket, often called the “shadow docket,” where justices rarely hear arguments and often issue unsigned orders that don’t explain how they arrived at their decisions or even how they voted. These decisions are continuing to come down even after the court began its summer recess. For example: On Au

First report: Six major cases the Supreme Court will hear in its upcoming term — washingtonexaminer.com, 1d