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

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 Trump administration was dealt a rare Supreme Court shadow docket loss on Friday in a case that challenges a Justice ...

Less than a month ago, Justice Elena Kagan suggested the Supreme Court consider dialing back its review of significant cases on its controversial emergency docket. “Our summers used to be actually ...

Without extensive briefing or oral argument, the Supreme Court has all but eliminated the president's ability to deploy the ...

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

The Supreme Court on Friday issued its final decisions in cases argued this term, capping off another year with contentious rulings that split the justices along party lines. Such rulings involving ...

In today's New York Times, Adam Liptak takes a look at the "sharp partisan divides" on the Supreme Court's "emergency docket" (aka the "shadow docket" or "interim docket"). The story notes that the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...