Only once in the modern era have the justices taken this long to issue their first decision — and when it came, it wasn’t the ...

On Tuesday, Justice Sonia Sotomayor denied a bid by an Ecuadorian national to stave off his extradition to that country to face sexual abuse charges. One day earlier, the full court – over a dissent ...

Vladeck holds the Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts at the University of Texas School of Law. His latest book is The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power ...

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 ...

Justices Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson could have joined Justice Kavanaugh to grant cert in the CPSC case, but they didn't. Yet, there is a shortcoming with Justice Kagan's ruling. She is unhappy that ...

Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and lower courts, and for people’s lives. Please ...

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 ...

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at Balls and Strikes. On Thursday, a federal district judge allowed a lawsuit challenging the ...

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 ...

Most cases you’ve heard of, including Brown and Roe, have been decided on something called the “merits docket.” When a case makes it through the lower courts to the merits docket, standard procedure ...