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The shadow docket : how the Supreme Court uses stealth rulings to amass power and undermine the republic
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Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
xv, 334 pages ; 25 cm
Summary:
"The Supreme Court has always had the authority to issue emergency rulings--halting an execution or preventing a law from going into effect until lower courts could rule on its constitutionality--but until recently, it did so only in exceptional circumstances and issued only narrow rulings. Yet in the past decade, the court has expanded its use of the behind-the-scenes 'shadow docket' dramatically, handing down major decisions that impact millions of Americans without oral argument or signed opinions, and often without any legal reasoning at all. ... Vladeck offers a comprehensive analysis of the shadow docket, tracing its emergence in the 1970s in the wake of major court decisions on the death penalty and its recent embrace by a conservative-leaning court that has expanded it to set policy on everything from election law to abortion to immigration. ... [The book] exposes a disturbing institutional crisis that threatens the foundations of our democracy, and calls for sweeping reform"--
Contents:
The rise of certiorari : how the "least dangerous branch" came to control its agenda -- Substance in procedure : how the court decides without deciding -- The machinery of death : how capital punishment gave rise to the modern shadow docket -- The tenth justice : how the Trump Administration blew up the shadow docket -- COVID and the court : how the court abused the shadow docket to expand religious liberty -- The "Purcell principle" : how the current court uses the shadow docket to help Republicans -- "Read the opinion" : how the court's abuse of the shadow docket undermines its legitimacy -- Bringing the Supreme Court out of the shadows.
Publication Info:
New York, NY : Basic Books/Hachette Book Group, 2023.
Subject:
Political questions and judicial power -- United States. |
Extraordinary remedies -- United States. |
Pre-trial procedure -- United States. |
United States. Supreme Court |
United States. Verkhovnyĭ Sud |
Supreme Court (U.S.) |
United States. Oberster Gerichtshof |
United States. Sąd Najwyższy |
United States. Tribunal Supremo |
United States. Corte Suprema |
United States. Legfelsőbb Bíróság |
Chief Justice of the United States |
Supreme Court of the United States |
美 !7o. 最高法院 |
Judicial activism |
Judicial power and political questions |
Special proceedings |
Pre-trial conferences |
Pre-trial hearings |
Pretrial conferences |
Pretrial hearings |
Pretrial procedure |
SAILS ISBN:
9781541602632