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Tried to visualize this a bit differently.
Not just “things are moving faster”…
but who actually gets the benefit of that time.
🟢 = policy allowed to proceed
🟠 = policy blocked early
🔵 = lower court ruling stands
Even in a small sample, it looks like the Court is making directional choices about who gets to act while litigation plays out.
So maybe the question isn’t just why the tempo changed…
but how that time gets allocated.
Maybe the deeper signal is not just how the Court ruled on the shadow docket.
It’s how often a presidency ended up there at all.
If one administration is generating a disproportionate share of substantive emergency applications, that suggests more than a few isolated disputes.
It suggests a governing style that repeatedly depends on immediate action, immediate litigation, and immediate Supreme Court intervention.
I would posit that you are seeing something different than it first appears. The rise of the administrative state neccesitated this change in tempo.
For the past 40 or so years, Lawmakers have abdicated their legilative powers to newly created "Agencies" and imbue them with powers to "regulate" things - all done with no specific laws. Just a blanket "The Secretary of Agency XXX shall determine ....."
Because of this development now there is much more cost to the traditional court structure...if the court does nothing the new agency can do 10, 20, 30 years of damage before the whole thing is decided that its probably unconstitutional. This presents a real challenge.
In the end, its obvious why lawmakers prefer this arrangement. Your local senator is off the hook for everything, he/she can simply decry "the process" and "Washington DC" when the over-reach happens.....and there name isn't really attached.
In the end this is just another sign of the collapse of the republic and the likely outcome of super-charged executive branch taking control of everything dictator style