The Capitol Hill Reader #127: A Modest Week of Proclamations, Rollbacks, and Shadow Docket Democracy

Routine Governance in Extraordinary Times

Hello Readers,

Yes, it’s been a few weeks. After almost a solid year of 1-3 articles per week with very few breaks, we had to do some soul searching.

While we love creating giant, sprawling digests packed with legislative information, bills, presidential actions, presidential blunders, federal court cases, and more, several facts remained: these digests take an enormous amount of time to produce for us on top of our normal jobs (i.e. why we burned out for a minute), and giant walls of text are not a streamlined way to deliver information. In other words, we let the lit major in us take over, and for that, we apologize—though we will never apologize for using the em dash correctly, even if it makes it looks like a robot wrote these articles.

We started this newsletter as a way to get abridged, easy to understand government information to your inbox, and that is what we are going to be doing once again, from here on out. Start by checking out the “digest at a glance” section to see what …