A series of recent Supreme Court decisions favoring the Trump administration were made under the court’s “emergency docket,” often referred to as the “shadow docket.”

In a recent ruling allowing the Trump administration to disassemble the Department of Education and fire nearly 1,400 federal workers, the Supreme Court did not answer a straightforward question: Why?

Across the street from the U.S. Capitol, the Supreme Court justices discussed whether the Department of Education should be able to lay off hundreds of employees en masse. By a 6-3 vote on Monday, July 14,