The criminal law docket includes roughly thirty cases that divide fairly evenly into three categories: Criminal Procedure (including both constitutional criminal procedure and statutory rules); ...

SCOTUS's Shadow Docket Has Gotten Out of Control The Supreme Court has been granting relief when the applicant has not truly demonstrated irreparable harm, effectively deciding cases at too early a ...

For 30 years or more I have been compiling an annual booklet summarizing all the “Criminal Law and Related Decisions” of the Supreme Court, published every summer by the Criminal Law Section of the ...

Less than a month ago, Justice Elena Kagan suggested the Supreme Court consider dialing back its review of significant cases on its controversial emergency docket. “Our summers used to be actually ...

Ultimately, I argued four of the cases, my co-counsel argued the other. But I would still have to prepare for the argument ...

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 ...

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 term usually ends with a bang, not a whimper. This is crunch time at the court, as the justices push to issue their opinions by the end of June. Some 20 cases remain to be decided — ...

Washington — The Supreme Court spent much of its most recent term responding to a fire hose of requests for emergency relief sought by the Trump administration, as President Trump's efforts to ...

(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 ...

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 ...