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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 ...

Speaking to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit's Judicial Conference, Justice Brett Kavanaugh suggests that the "interim docket" is a better label for the Supreme Court's docket of ...

President Trump has submitted a record number of emergency cases to the Supreme Court’s “shadow docket,” persuading it to overturn lower court rulings that go against his administration’s policies.

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 ...

Deadline: White House” legal analyst Jordan Rubin answers your questions about the Supreme Court, Trump administration ...

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 ...

(NewsNation) — President Donald Trump’s administration has filed an unprecedented number of petitions to the Supreme Court’s so-called shadow docket, which have cleared the path for policies such as ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Is it possible for Congress to write a law that prohibits shadow docket rulings and/or forces a full written ruling explaining the reasoning?” – Ian But even if the bill goes nowhere, it’s a good ...