It would present a disciplined mechanism for shadowing the issues that come before the court of last resort.

Trump has made significantly more emergency requests to the high court than any other President in recent history. Most of the responses have been favorable.

The Supreme Court justices took the bench last week to hear oral arguments, but the start of this term feels different from ...

A SCOTUSblog analysis says dissents reached about 0.89% of the Supreme Court's shadow docket in the 2018-19 and 2023-24 terms.

For likely the first time in modern history, the Supreme Court decided more cases in fast-tracked, secretive proceedings than in open court. We break down how a once-rare emergency process became the ...

“During the era in which the justices have employed the shadow docket in this really unprecedented way, trust in the court has plummeted,” says New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor. “And it hasn't even ...

I have heard from a few people in recent days who think the Supreme Court is cowering before the Trump administration or, at least, is not adequately standing up to it. Adam Liptak gave voice to a ...

WASHINGTON — Shortly before midnight, the US Supreme Court released a brief order on a hot-button subject of national importance with potentially massive ripple effects. The Supreme Court's handling ...

Yesterday evening, as expected, the Supreme Court granted mifepristone manufacturers' requests for a stay of an order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit blocking a 2023 Food and Drug ...

Earlier this year, SCOTUSblog published the first Interim Relief Docket Stat Pack, a statistical portrait of the Supreme ...

Chief Justice John Roberts defends emergency docket use in Fed case Conservative dissenters criticize court’s expansive emergency rulings Court overrules 1935 precedent expanding presidential firing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump rides in his motorcade as he arrives at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on April 1, 2026. —Kent ...