U.S. Supreme Court,
Judges and Judiciary,
Government
Feb. 19, 2021
Congress has questions about high court’s ‘shadow cases’
These emergency relief orders are short, occur without oral argument, and sometimes are not accompanied by the names of the justices who wrote them.
A growing number of important U.S. Supreme Court cases, from death penalty appeals to election law challenges, are being decided by emergency orders that legal observers told a congressional subcommittee Thursday raise major concerns about the judicial system.
These emergency relief orders are short, occur without oral argument, and sometimes are not accompanied by the names of the justices who wrote them.
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