Description
The Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” is one of the most talked-about aspects of the Court’s work. Originally a narrow tool for urgent matters, such as last-minute death penalty appeals, it has expanded to shape outcomes in high-profile disputes over elections, immigration, and public health. This lecture provides an overview of the shadow docket’s history, operation, and effect, in addition to examining the impact of several rulings that have emerged from the docket.
Andrew Schultz is a retired attorney who practiced law with the Rodey Law Firm for nearly 40 years. He is the only graduate of the UNM School of Law to clerk at the US Supreme Court, where he served Justice Byron R. White. For more than three decades, Schultz taught as an adjunct professor at the UNM School of Law.