Cloak and Docket
Episode 314 of the The American Mind Podcast podcast, hosted by The Claremont Institute, titled "Cloak and Docket" was published on April 22, 2026 and runs 46 minutes.
April 22, 2026 ·46m · The American Mind Podcast
Episode Description
In a dramatic leak, The New York Times has published seven private memos from a 2016 exchange between Supreme Court Justices leading up to the now-famous interim order that blocked President Obama's "Clean Power Plan." The Times’s lopsided framing accuses Chief Justice Roberts of being flippant and taking unprecedented action. But the so-called "shadow docket" has been used more broadly to shut down both rampant Biden-era lawfare and Trumpian overreach. This week, the guys detail how the courts of both law and public opinion have been changing in the era of the imperial presidency.
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