The Supreme Court typically takes its time when deciding cases, but the Left’s flurry of lawsuits against the Trump administration has filled up the high court’s emergency docket and forced the ...

The Supreme Court on Monday added seven new cases to its merits docket for the 2024-25 term, including a challenge to Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors. (That case is covered in a ...

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 term sounds daunting, like it's lurking and waiting to strike – “the shadow docket.” You’ve probably heard the label by now, but it’s going to keep coming up. So let’s break down what it is and ...

The Supreme Court has increasingly used emergency orders to shape the law in cases concerning a variety of hot-button issues, a move that has quietly given the court more power over the years, CNN ...

Washington — Immigration, COVID-19 restrictions, voting rules and abortion are just some of the hot-button issues that have garnered the Supreme Court's attention over the last few months, but not ...

Vladeck holds the Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts at the University of Texas School of Law. His latest book is The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power ...

A new book explores the Supreme Court's growing influence on the country through emergency actions on cases not on the official docket. For the past decade or so, the court has gotten involved in ...

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

I am not just another pundit speculating on the nature of the interim relief docket, and this is not just another article critiquing the justices’ use of it. Rather, I have gathered all emergency ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump has an almost flawless record on the Supreme Court’s emergency docket this year, a streak that has delivered crucial moments of relief to the government as it fights hundreds of ...