It’s Still the Shadow Docket, Despite Kavanaugh’s Pathetic Rebrand Attempt

OA1189 - The Supreme Court’s next term may not start until October, but their infamous shadow--sorry, “interim”--docket is in rare form as they issue snap decisions on everything from exactly where one 14-year-old boy can pee to just how openly racist ICE gets to be. Matt and Jenessa review which major precedents the conservative majority is ignoring to enable Trump’s worst policies this week before getting on to some Epstein-related legal updates and a radical new development from the Board of Immigration Appeals with massive implications for Trump’s mass deportation plans. 

Finally, Matt drops a footnote to address one of our nation’s least pressing legal questions: is it really true that a wedding in Kentucky can be legally officiated by a dead bear once described as “filled to the brim with cocaine”?

1. SCOTUS order in Trump v. Slaughter  (9/8/2025) 

2. SCOTUS order (with Kavanaugh concurrence and Sotomayor dissent) in Noem v. Vasquez-Perdomo (9/8/25)

3. Matter of Yajure Hurtado, 21 I&N 216 (BIA 2025)

4. Kentucky Revised Statute 402.070 

P.S. Matt messed up his audio and is very sorry about it!