Brett Kavanaugh has addressed how the Supreme Court’s short, unexplained rulings in the “shadow docket” have caused a rift ...

Cases and Controversies is a recurring series by Carolyn Shapiro, primarily focusing on the effects of the Supreme Court’s ...

The right-wing-dominated Supreme Court keeps greenlighting Trump’s most authoritarian actions without even bothering to give ...

The former dean of Harvard Law School contests how the court’s conservative wing is handing the 47th president victories.

Speaking at the Eighth Circuit Judicial Conference this week, Justice Brett Kavanaugh addressed concerns about the Supreme Court's failure ...

Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Thursday defended the way the Supreme Court is handling the flood of emergency cases that has ...

Justice Brett Kavanaugh defended the absence of explanations in recent Supreme Court decisions that have allowed the Trump ...

We recognize that the emergency docket is a necessary part of Supreme Court business. It allows the court to address urgent ...

Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson have expressed displeasure with the majority’s decisions regarding applications on the emergency docket.

The Supreme Court's critics are too quick to assume the Court's orders are motivated by political considerations as opposed to principle.

During the first six months of President Donald Trump's second term, the Supreme Court has frequently issued emergency docket (also known as the "shadow docket") rulings that have usually gone Trump's ...