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Coupled with the misuse and abuse of the court’s emergency — or “shadow” — docket, the conservative majority has only reinforced the idea that the president is to be given total latitude without constitutional restraint.

Several cases from the court’s emergency docket, or shadow docket, in recent months indicate that other justices share that desire.

The court's reliance on this shadow docket has been criticised by left-leaning legal scholars and politicians as an improper use of the court's authority.

“This case is familiar to the Court and involves the increasingly familiar and untenable phenomenon of lower courts disregarding this Court’s orders on the emergency docket,” he said.

“The government attorneys handling these cases shall, within 7 days of this order, file statements in the docket that they are not being supervised by Ms. Chattah in their prosecution of these cases.”