New York Times Chief Legal Affairs Correspondent Adam Liptak and Professor Sam Bray. Photos by Lloyd DeGrane. At the 2026 ...
As you’ll see below in the Morning Reads section, it was a busy weekend on the Supreme Court beat – to put it lightly. And we ...
Over the past decade, the Supreme Court has increasingly relied on its emergency docket, called the shadow docket.
Chief Justice John Roberts was the driving force behind the rise of the Supreme Court’s emergency docket as a powerful tool to empower the activist conservative majority — that’s the main takeaway of ...
Harvard magazine reports on recent comments by retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer on the "shadow docket." Although Justice ...
The Times unearthed memos that signaled a major shift in the court’s operations, in a decision that critics say was rushed ...
It is referred to as the shadow docket, the emergency docket, the interim-orders docket. Whatever you call it, this fast ...
The origins of the Supreme Court’s secretive “shadow docket” have been revealed, providing a glimpse into how the justices ...
By Jan Wolfe April 15 (Reuters) - Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has stepped up her criticism of the conservative-majority U.S ...
Defenders of the emergency docket frequently claim that the court’s conduct is permissible because its orders are temporary.
In a famous Supreme Court one-liner, reminding the legal community of the finality of the court’s rulings, the late Justice ...
The Supreme Court’s interim relief docket, also known as the emergency docket or the shadow docket, consists of applications ...