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by bwestergard 299 days ago
You are very much right.

But Trump tried to fire Gwynne Wilcox of the National Labor Relations Board and the Supreme Court killed her case in the shadow docket.

https://www.steptoe.com/en/news-publications/the-fed-can-sta...

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Notably in a lot of these cases they’re just canceling injunctions, not deciding the merits.

But effectively it decides the case because nobody is going to stick around through a long trial after the injunction is canceled.

Which basically makes The Supreme Courts shadow docket a fairly arbitrary justice system that doesn’t generate precedent and many courts ignore past the immediate case.