(NewsNation) — President Donald Trump’s administration has filed an unprecedented number of petitions to the Supreme Court’s so-called shadow docket, which have cleared the path for policies such as deportations and federal firings.

In the nine months Trump has been in office, he has filed 28 distinct applications to the court’s emergency docket, which is also called the shadow docket due to the opaque rulings, according to data from Georgetown University law professor Stephen Vladeck, who tracks shadow docket petitions closely.

The high court ruled in favor of the president at least 23 times on these requests, according to the data.

That number is more than three times the eight petitions filed in total during the 16 years former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama were in offic

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