What Is the Supreme Court’s ‘Shadow Docket,’ and How Has Trump Used It to Advance His Agenda?

While President Donald Trump battles growing pushback from lawmakers and American voters on multiple fronts, he is continuing to score victories in another arena: the Supreme Court’s so-called “shadow docket.” On Tuesday, the Court issued an emergency order allowing Trump to resume deporting people to “third countries” other than their own, temporarily lifting a lower court’s block. Days earlier, in response to another emergency request from the Trump Administration, the Court permitted the use of a controversial Department of Homeland Security (DHS) database in verifying the eligibility of voters ahead of the November midterms amid the Trump Administration's aggressive effort to crack down on alleged non-citizen voting.In both cases, the orders were unsigned and gave no vote count, but the Court’s three liberal Justices publicly dissented.The rulings are only the latest in a string of mostly favorable decisions the Trump Administration has received from the Supreme Court in response to a flurry of requests for emergency relief it has made as it fights to implement the President’s second term agenda amid an array of legal challenges. Trump has already made significantly more of tho...