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A closer look at how the Supreme Court uses the emergency docket

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Editor's note: Due to a scheduling change, this segment did not air on April 11, 2025, as planned. 

The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump Administration must work to bring home a migrant living in Maryland who was deported in error to a prison in El Salvador. It's the latest high-profile case off the court's emergency docket.

Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd speaks with Georgetown University Law professor Stephen Vladeck, author of  "The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic."

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