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The Scheme #37 - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
The New York Times exposed that conservative Supreme Court justices took bizarre steps to prop up Big Oil and conjure extra-record facts to reject President Obama’s Clean Power Plan — a move that precipitated the Court’s modern “shadow docket.” - 04/22/2026.