Defenders of #SCOTUS's shadow docket behavior (including Justice Alito), insist that the Court's orders aren't precedential. But here's the judge hearing VRA challenges to *Georgia's* redistricting suggesting that he's "bound" to follow the unexplained stays in the Alabama cases: pic.twitter.com/Hebl4rGP2I

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) February 17, 2022