The New York Times obtained secret memos from Supreme Court justices showing how the court deliberately abandoned formal procedures to establish its shadow docket for major rulings on presidential power. The documents, published today, provide the first detailed institutional record of how the court shifted toward this secretive decision-making track. This matters because the shadow docket has become the mechanism through which the Court issues consequential rulings—often without full briefing, oral argument, or published opinions—decisions that traditionally would have required the formal procedures the memos show were consciously abandoned. The scope of documents obtained (16 pages of internal deliberations across seven memos from 2016) suggests NYT has significant primary source material on the Court's internal reasoning.