Among the court’s brief rulings in the “shadow docket,” where time-sensitive cases are heard without oral argument and often ...

Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Thursday defended the way the Supreme Court is handling the flood of emergency cases that has ...

Justice Brett Kavanaugh defended the Supreme Court’s recent practice of handing victories to President Donald Trump without ...

Justices fundamentally hostile to the rights of voters place the court increasingly at odds with democracy itself.

A court is supposed to explain things,” the Obama appointee said during her appearance at a circuit conference. “That’s what ...

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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 ...