An interesting article describing how the U.S. Supreme Court issues and uses one of it's rarely seen or used tools called "Shadow Dockets" to sidestep and bypass lower courts decisions and how it effects us:
The 'shadow docket': How the U.S. Supreme Court quietly dispatches key rulings
In the months before former President Donald Trump left office in January, the U.S. Supreme Court briskly paved the way for the lethal injection of 13 federal inmates, the first federal executions in 17 years.
www.reuters.com