emergency applications on its shadow docket. he also said he s weighing his decision on when to step down considering the dynamics of the court now and these recent shadow docket decisions on remain in mexico and the eviction moratorium. talk to me about the stakes and what you think it is breyer is going to do. as his term wound down, a number of pundits said this was a moderate, consensus driven court. but by the time the term end and the last decisions were in, we saw some of the most important cases had fractured along traditionally ideological lines with the six conservatives voting together and the three liberals voting in dissent. it s perhaps the most conservative court we ve seen in a generation. that also echoes throughout the lower federal courts. that s where president trump was most successful in his domestic agenda in terms of getting judges placed on the federal courts. justice breyer famously said he does not want the search for his