The Supreme Court’s emergency docket dominated 2025, with the justices considering a surge of challenges to President Donald Trump’s actions that upended its normal operations and resulted in an ...

The Supreme Court is deciding cases that involve critical decisions affecting our everyday lives while using a procedure that provides little to no transparency to the public. Ahead of the 2022 ...

Today the Supreme Court issued another order on the emergency docket. In Office of Personnel Management v. American Federation of Government Employees, a federal district court ordered the ...

On Tuesday, Justice Sonia Sotomayor denied a bid by an Ecuadorian national to stave off his extradition to that country to face sexual abuse charges. One day earlier, the full court – over a dissent ...

Critics call the expedited rulings, which have become routine in the second Trump administration, the “shadow docket.” The justices have other ideas. By Adam Liptak Reporting from Washington About a ...

The Supreme Court refused to intervene Friday in a battle concerning immigration judges’ speech restrictions, for now, ...

Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and lower courts, and for people’s lives. Please ...

Washington — The Supreme Court spent much of its most recent term responding to a fire hose of requests for emergency relief sought by the Trump administration, as President Trump's efforts to ...

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito launched a litany of acerbic barbs at critics of the Supreme Court's so-called shadow docket on Thursday. Noting that the term was coined in a 2015 law review ...

Emergency rulings are “fundamentally changing the way EPA authority works,” said one environmental lawyer. The Supreme Court is once again reaching out through its emergency docket to bring ...

Legal experts agree that the US Supreme Court has been more active in issuing unexplained orders through its "shadow docket," which gives the Trump administration nearly carte blanche to further its ...