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• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

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Summary of The Shadow Docket By Stephen Vladeck: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

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Stephen Vladeck's book examines the Supreme Court's use of the "shadow docket" to make decisions that affect millions of Americans without public hearings and without explanation. He calls for the Court to be brought back into the light to protect the rule of law.

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This book began as a series of tweets and was spurred on by Ward Farnsworth, Julia Solomon-Strauss, Amy Howe, Edith Roberts, James Romsomer, Mark Joseph Stern, Emma Berry, and the team at Basic Books. It was inspired by the June 2017 travel ban ruling and subsequent Supreme Court orders, and was supported by Ward Farnsworth, Julia Solomon-Strauss, Amy Howe, Edith Roberts, James Romsomer, Mark Joseph Stern, Emma Berry, and the team at Basic Books. Emma, Katie Carruthers-Busser, Kathy Streckfus, Jessica Breen, Meghan Brophy, and Liz Wetzel, Will Baude, a number of faculty colleagues, Jennifer Laurin, Bernie Meyler, Sam Jordan, and Alli Larsen and Aaron-Andrew Bruhl, and Will Baude's 2015 article in the New York University Journal of Law and Liberty helped to define the field of shadow docket law. The author also owes deep gratitude to Will Baude, Bernie Meyler, Sam Jordan, and Alli Larsen and Aaron-Andrew Bruhl for their generosity in answering questions, giving advice, and reviewing drafts of sections. The author is grateful for the feedback and writings of many friends and colleagues in the professional media, including Joan Biskupic, Linda Greenhouse, Dahlia Lithwick, Ariane de Vogue, Burt Neuborne, Norm Siegel, Adam Feldman, Isaac Green, Justin Atkinson, Laura Beth Bienhoff, Leah Butterfield, Rob Castaeda, Madison Chilton, Wes Dodson, Niko Fotinos, Alex Gaudio, Kelly Katherine Howe, Henry Humphreys, Aaron Lozano, Ryland Maksoud, Hannah Masraff, Stewart McDonald, Emily Meier, Julie Molina, Jonathan Molinar, Jason Onyediri, Lul Ortiz, Will Pratt, Sean Reilly, Camille Richieri, Sydney Salters, Melody Shaff, Layton Sussman, Ben Whitehead, Taylor Wilson, and Anastasia Zaluckyj.

They have also been blessed with a cadre of dedicated, hardworking, and exceptionally bright research assistants. Three people were instrumental in bringing this book to fruition: Rachael Jensen, Bonnie Devany and Christina Peterman, Matt Steinke, Joe Noel, and Marsha Moyer. The author is also grateful for the support and skills of Matt Steinke, Joe Noel, and Marsha Moyer. The author is also grateful for the support and skills of Matt Steinke, Joe Noel, and Marsha Moyer. The author dedicates the book to Nasser Hussain, his mentor and college thesis adviser, who died in November 2015.

Nasser has been a major influence on the author's life, from teaching them how to write to thinking about the interwoven nature of law and the society it both structures and responds to. He also taught them to look at the world the way they now do, and to devote a career to helping others do the same. He is grateful for his best friend and better half, Karen, and their daughters, Madeleine and Sydney, who make everything worth it.

PREFACE

The Supreme Court's decision to overrule Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization on June 24, 2022 was a harbinger of things to come. On September 1, 2021, the same five justices who would later form the majority in Dobbs refused to block Texas's ban on abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy, even though the Texas law was clearly inconsistent with Roe. This decision was a harbinger of things to come, as most Texans needing abortions had the means to travel out of state for the procedure. The Supreme Court's conservative majority has used obscure procedural orders to shift American jurisprudence to the right in recent years. These orders have had a monumental impact on the real world, from abortion to asylum, elections to evictions to executions, COVID vaccinations to the Clean Water Act, and redistricting to religious liberty.

These orders are accessible to citizens, allowing them to understand the relevant legal principles and how they might be applied to similar cases in the future. Unsigned orders are obscure, inscrutable, and practically inaccessible. William Baude, a conservative constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago, first used the term "shadow docket" to describe this part of the Supreme Court's work. Since 2017, the justices have been utilizing these orders more often and with broader effects, sometimes instead of resolving similar legal questions on the merits docket. They are also insisting that some of these unexplained rulings are precedents that lower courts and government officials are bound to follow.