1. United States
2. Va.
3. Letter

Stop the shadow docket! The Supreme Court has been secretly ruling on major policy without written opinions, without public reasoning, and without accountability. In 2016, Chief Justice John Roberts personally fast-tracked an emergency request with No oral arguments. No full briefing. No written opinion explaining why. Just an unsigned order that killed the most significant climate regulation in American history. That ruling was supposed to be an exception. In the decade since, the shadow docket has been transformed into a weapon for reshaping American policy. The court now routinely issues major rulings through this process: unsigned, unexplained, and unchallengeable. No public reasoning. No dissent published. No written opinions means no record. No record means no accountability. No accountability means they can do whatever they want. This must stop!