1、CRS Legal Sidebar Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Legal SidebarLegal Sidebari i The “Shadow Docket”: The Supreme Courts Non-Merits Orders Updated August 27, 2021 The evening of Friday, August 20, 2021, saw significant activity on the Supreme Courts non-merits docket. That evening, th
2、e Biden Administration filed an application for stay pending appeal in Biden v. Texas, seeking to pause a Texas district court order blocking the rescission of a Trump Administration immigration policy known as the “Migrant Protection Protocols” (MPP). After 11 p.m. that evening, Justice Alito issue
3、d a temporary administrative stay of the Texas courts decision, pausing the order requiring enforcement of the MPP until the full Court could consider whether a longer stay was warranted. Also on the evening of August 20, in Alabama Association of Realtors v. Department of Health and Human Services,
4、 a group of landlords and real estate trade associations challenging the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) eviction moratorium filed an emergency application for a Supreme Court order that would immediately bar enforcement of the moratorium. Shortly after the application was docketed
