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Season 13 · Episode 11
Landed Sun, 10 May 2026 · 23:00 your time · 1 episode · 38m
Season 13, Episode 11 of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver aired Sunday, 10 May 2026 at 11pm ET on HBO Max.
- S13E11Shadow DocketJohn Oliver examines the Supreme Court's shadow docket, a procedural mechanism that allows the Court to issue major emergency orders without the full briefing, oral argument, or detailed public reasoning normally associated with its merits docket. The episode explains how the shadow docket has increasingly been used for consequential legal and political decisions, why that shift raises transparency and accountability concerns, and how it can accelerate major policy changes with limited public scrutiny. The episode also includes a lighter recurring thread about turtles, used to break up the legal discussion with the show's usual absurdist humor.
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