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How the Supreme Court’s ‘shadow docket’ keeps the public – and other judges – in the dark 

President Trump has submitted a record number of emergency cases to the Supreme Court’s “shadow docket,” persuading it to overturn lower court rulings that go against his administration’s policies. Slate senior writer Mark Joseph Stern warns the high court is…