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The Roberts Court’s Internal Reckoning

March 21, 2026·54 min·5 clips

The Supreme Court silently rendered hundreds of thousands of immigrants deportable with unexplained midnight orders.

Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern analyze the Supreme Court's internal reckoning, focusing on the shadow docket's impact on Temporary Protected Status cases and Justice Jackson's confrontations with colleagues. They discuss how the Court is responding to political pressure, judicial threats, and upcoming landmark decisions on voting rights and immigration.

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