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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 ...

Speaking to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit's Judicial Conference, Justice Brett Kavanaugh suggests that the "interim docket" is a better label for the Supreme Court's docket of ...

Not long ago, progressives blasted the Supreme Court for abusing the "shadow docket" - the issuing of unsigned, late-night rulings without full arguments or explanation. Then, late last month, the ...

Last week’s order in Trump v. Illinois involved the deployment of 300 members of the Illinois National Guard to Chicago. The ...

President Trump has submitted a record number of emergency cases to the Supreme Court’s “shadow docket,” persuading it to overturn lower court rulings that go against his administration’s policies.

The Trump administration was dealt a rare Supreme Court shadow docket loss on Friday in a case that challenges a Justice Department policy that restricts immigration judges from speaking publicly ...

Shadow Docket: The statue "Contemplation of Justice," located on the U.S. Supreme Courts Building, where justices increasingly rule on major constitutional questions through anonymous emergency orders ...

"Local police departments have provided insufficient assistance," Justice Samuel Alito rages in dissent. "The protection of ...

For lawyers, judges and engaged citizens, the book “The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic” has a lot to offer about what the late Yale ...