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Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan have criticized the use of these applications as a way to circumvent the traditional legal process. Specifically, during a law school speech, Justice Jackson stated that the frequent use of the shadow docket is having a "disruptive and potentially corrosive effect" on the courts.

The 41st application requested that the court allow the Bureau of Prisons to reimplement a policy that cuts off certain gender-affirming care for incarcerated transgender people. This follows an order from U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, a Reagan appointee, who ordered the administration to continue providing care to individuals with gender dysphoria while legal challenges to a 2025 executive order and a Bureau of Prisons policy are litigated.

The Biden administration made 19 requests over a four-year period. The Obama and George W. Bush administrations combined made eight requests over their 16 years in office; specifically, President Obama made three requests and President Bush made five requests.

The emergency or shadow docket allows parties to seek expedited Supreme Court intervention before a case finishes the standard appeals process. For example, the court can use it to pause a lower court's injunction, which allows a policy to take effect while litigation is still ongoing. Orders from this docket are often issued without an explanation and without a signature.

OpenAI President Greg Brockman and other AI leaders are set to meet with President Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) asked a court on Monday to prevent OpenAI from further developing its technology for the time being.

California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) signed a law last year that prevents defendants from escaping liability by arguing that an AI acted on its own.

Tyler Whitmer is the founder of Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology (LASST). His goal is to ensure there are legal mechanisms that tie the harms caused by AI agents back to a responsible human or corporate actor, and he hopes an injunction will incentivize OpenAI and the wider industry to alter development processes to prevent future incidents.

The single biggest program outlay was on Fox's NFL coverage over the weekend, which accounted for 340 airings.

The government has spent at least $2.5 million on the ads. They have aired more than 2,000 times on broadcast networks and more than 50 times on cable.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is placing the ad buys using money from an existing budget.

The ads tout his record and echo themes from his campaign rhetoric, which include warnings about "communism, socialism and Marxism," as well as vows to take on the "deep state," "globalists," and "warmongers."