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The Supreme Court's real decisions now arrive unsigned on the emergency docket.

With roughly 30 emergency applications in 15 months and the government winning about 75 percent, stays and administrative orders — not merits rulings — are now resolving the term's defining disputes, from inmate medical care to immigration detention.

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US Politics
Trump v. Kingdom: SCOTUS Weighs a Stay on the BOP's Transgender-Care Cutoff — "Contrived to Support the Demand President Trump Made in the EO"

Even inmate medical care now turns on an emergency stay rather than full briefing and argument.

US Politics
SCOTUS Takes Up Trump's Mandatory-Detention Policy: Cert Grant Sets Up a Definitive Ruling on Bond Hearings for Detained Immigrants

Merits review of the detention policy arrives only after emergency orders have already let it operate nationwide.

US Politics
Trump's War on His Own Supreme Court Justices Enters the New Term

A sitting justice concedes the shadow docket has displaced merits review as the Court's center of gravity.