More often than not in 2025, when the U.S. Supreme Court issued one of its highly procedural “shadow docket” emergency orders involving Donald Trump’s executive prerogatives, the conservative majority delivered for the president. But not today: In a final order before the Court shuts down for Christmas, six justices (the order itself was unsigned, but Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote a concurrence and Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and

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