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Shadow docket Supreme Court decisions could affect millions

by Gary Fields
| September 6, 2021 12:06 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Traditionally, the process of getting an opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court takes months and those rulings are often narrowly tailored. Emergency orders, especially during the court's summer break, revolve around specific issues, like individual death penalty cases.

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