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

Today the Supreme Court issued another order on the emergency docket. In Office of Personnel Management v. American Federation of Government Employees, a federal district court ordered the ...

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 ...

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 ...

After my last post, co-blogger Will Baude and another reader asked offline whether perhaps the word “interior” was doing work in Justice Kavanaugh’s footnote in Trump v. ... The basic constitutional ...

Justices Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson could have joined Justice Kavanaugh to grant cert in the CPSC case, but they didn't. Yet, there is a shortcoming with Justice Kagan's ruling. She is unhappy that ...

Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and lower courts, and for people’s lives. Please ...

Legal experts agree that the US Supreme Court has been more active in issuing unexplained orders through its "shadow docket," which gives the Trump administration nearly carte blanche to further its ...