The Supreme Court's grant of a stay application in the RIF case highlights its "increased reliance on the shadow docket to essentially decide cases without knowing all the facts, and without having the case fully briefed." Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, pointing out the Court's decision to intervene without fully understanding the facts, and that the district court is "in the best position to evaluate the evidence and decide what the facts are."

"Several key sectors of the economy, like agriculture, rely on cheap, undocumented labor to keep things running." Without these laborers, "the meat and the milk and the crops either wouldn't make it to market, or they'd be vastly more expensive." Worker Shortages: "Workers are now failing to show up for their shifts on farms, at dairies, at meatpacking plants, etc.," due to fear of immigra ...