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

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

The former dean of Harvard Law School contests how the court’s conservative wing is handing the 47th president victories.

Speaking at the Eighth Circuit Judicial Conference this week, Justice Brett Kavanaugh addressed concerns about the Supreme Court's failure ...

In May, the U.S. Supreme Court granted an emergency request by the Trump administration to allow President Donald Trump's ...

In a recent ruling allowing the Trump administration to disassemble the Department of Education and fire nearly 1,400 federal ...

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

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan called on her colleagues to exercise caution when issuing emergency orders in legal ...

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

By allowing the Trump administration to decimate the Department of Education, the Supreme Court’s majority has elevated its ...

A series of recent Supreme Court decisions favoring the Trump administration were made under the court’s “emergency docket,” often referred to as the “shadow docket.” … ...

The Supreme Court’s shadow docket has become a lawless mess. The justices are issuing extremely consequential rulings with ...