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Richard Blumenthal: “The emergency docket ruling, the shadow docket ruling…”

Featuring: Richard Blumenthal, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Connecticut

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Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal Discusses Supreme Court Reforms and Ethics on Defending Democracy Podcast

Published | Video Starts at 24:17

Right. So that later there could be a full ruling on the merits. But as Professor Vladek has said, often there is no later, because The emergency docket ruling, the shadow docket ruling, becomes in effect, the rule of the court. And litigants like yourself who are doing important work in the courts are left to kind of try to piece together what the law is. (24:17–24:23)

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Asserts that emergency docket rulings often become the de facto rule of the court.

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