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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Sep 9, 2021

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing to examine the U.S. Supreme Court's use of the so-called shadow docket, which refers to when the justices make decisions on emergency applications without full briefing or argument. The docket, critics argue, is increasingly being relied on in high-profile public policy disputes. The court recently used the truncated process to rule on significant disputes over immigration policy and federal eviction protections, and to leave intact a new Texas law that bans most abortions, The Hill reports. No date has been set yet for the hearing.