Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean ...

A court fundamentally hostile to the rights of voters places the court increasingly at odds with democracy itself.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh defended the Supreme Court’s recent practice of handing victories to President Donald Trump without ...

Civil Rights and Wrongs is a recurring series by Daniel Harawa covering criminal justice and civil rights cases before the ...

Among the court’s brief rulings in the “shadow docket,” where time-sensitive cases are heard without oral argument and often ...

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

In a recent ruling allowing the Trump administration to disassemble the Department of Education and fire nearly 1,400 federal workers, the Supreme Court did not answer a straightforward question: Why?

The Supreme Court’s shadow docket has become a lawless mess. The justices are issuing extremely consequential rulings with ...

Playing a guessing game with the opinions and reasonings of Supreme Court Justices does a disservice to the rule of law ...

Brett Kavanaugh discusses the rifts over shadow docket rulings, revealing differing views among Supreme Court justices.

Dissenting Democratic-appointed justices complained that the majority "all but overturned" a 90-year-old precedent on the ...

The Supreme Court has handled a flood of appeals from the Trump administration on its emergency docket, also known as the ...