Over the years, the Supreme Court has sent mixed signals about whether its emergency docket orders carry precedential weight.

The critics on and off the Court are silent about an emergency-docket ruling they like.

Yesterday evening, as expected, the Supreme Court granted mifepristone manufacturers' requests for a stay of an order of the ...

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Justice Sonia Sotomayor in a Thursday speech at the University of Alabama School of Law said the Trump administration’s increase in emergency appeals is “unprecedented in the court’s history.” The ...

The biggest headlines about the Supreme Court typically involve one of two subjects: the major substantive rulings the Justices hand down each spring (like the decisions to eliminate a federal ...

A trio of bills from Maryland Representative Jamie Raskin would require Supreme Court justices to explain their secretive ...

The recent publication of confidential Supreme Court memoranda by The New York Times has brought to light a pivotal moment in the court’s history. “The birth of the Supreme Court’s shadow docket has ...