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.

Why is debate regarding the shadow docket "inevitable?" Detail Justice Kagan's comments. What has Justice Kagan "come to see" over the last few years of using the shadow docket?

Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean ...

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 ...

In a recent ruling allowing the Trump administration to disassemble the Department of Education and fire nearly 1,400 federal workers, the Supreme Court did not answer a straightforward question: Why?

Cases and Controversies is a recurring series by Carolyn Shapiro, primarily focusing on the effects of the Supreme Court’s ...

The right-wing-dominated Supreme Court keeps greenlighting Trump’s most authoritarian actions without even bothering to give ...

We recognize that the emergency docket is a necessary part of Supreme Court business. It allows the court to address urgent ...

Playing a guessing game with the opinions and reasonings of Supreme Court Justices does a disservice to the rule of law ...