Just five days after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit reinstated a fired FTC commissioner, noting that a 90-year-old Supreme Court precedent stood in President Donald Trump's way, Chief Justice John Roberts on Monday put that precedent on the brink in an emergency docket ruling allowing the firing for now, with potential ramifications for Lisa Cook as she aims to fend off her firing from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors .

Last week, as a veteran federal district judge expressed surprise that the high court's rulings on the so-called "shadow docket" — or "interim docket," as Justice Brett Kavanaugh would less sensationally call it — were binding precedent, several lower court jurists aired grievances in a news story and urged SCOTUS to be clearer when it issues emergenc

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