What is the shadow docket?

The "shadow docket" refers to the set of cases that the Supreme Court agrees to review outside of its merits docket. Shadow docket cases do not receive the full briefings, oral arguments, and lengthy opinions of cases on the official docket. While shadow docket cases are not prohibited from receiving oral arguments, they often do not. And while these cases typically receive less attention than cases on the merits docket, they can have significant implications for the law and for individual litigants.
Journalist Dahlia Lithwick explains the origin of the term "shadow docket" to refer to the growing number of emergency orders by the Court. Emergency orders of the Supreme Court traditionally came in response to important and time-sensitive issues (such as an imminent execution) that cannot wait until the next term of the Court or are so urgent that the measured pace of Supreme Court review would not be possible.
According to Lithwick and scholars such as Prof. Stephen Vladeck (Texas Law), the Supreme Court's shadow docket is more expansive than ever and is raising questions about precedent and the role of the high court.
Dahlia Lithwick is a contributing editor at Newsweek and senior editor at Slate covering law and the courts. She is the host of the Slate podcast Amicus and the author of the book Lady Justice, Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America (Penguin Press, 2022).
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