Welcome back, Deadline: Legal Newsletter readers. We've paused our regularly scheduled programming for the summer. In the meantime, here's a preview of a story from MSNBC writer Jordan Rubin that we think you'll find interesting.
The Supreme Court isn't really on summer vacation. In fact, the justices are now doing some of their most significant work of the year.
Last month, they handed down their final opinions of the term in cases that were granted full briefing and argument. But before they return to the bench in the fall for the next term, they're continuing to resolve emergency appeals on the so-called shadow docket (or emergency docket, or whatever term one prefers).
The latest example came Wednesday, when the Republican-appointed majority approved Republican President Donald Trump's power to fire Democratic members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission without cause, over dissent from the court's three Democratic appointees. The decision continues a theme of the Roberts Court empowering the presidency during Trump's second term.
Read the rest of Jordan Rubin's story here.
