The Supreme Court has increasingly used emergency orders to shape the law in cases concerning a variety of hot-button issues, a move that has quietly given the court more power over the years, CNN ...

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 ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. By now, you’ve probably heard a great deal about the Supreme Court’s interim relief docket, also known as the emergency or ...

In making frequent, ill use of the “shadow docket,” the high court is not just handing Trump policy victories. It’s upending the rule of law. Courts play an important role in authoritarian regimes.

The Supreme Court typically takes its time when deciding cases, but the Left's flurry of lawsuits against the Trump administration has filled up the high court's emergency docket and forced the ...

When it rains, it pours. On Monday, the Supreme Court issued two consequential orders on the emergency docket. First, the Court issued a stay of the trial court's ruling in the Staten Island ...