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

Why is debate regarding the shadow docket "inevitable?" Detail Justice Kagan's comments. What has Justice Kagan "come to see" over the last few years of using the shadow docket?

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

Brett Kavanaugh has addressed how the Supreme Court’s short, unexplained rulings in the “shadow docket” have caused a rift ...

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

The modern shadow docket is home to cases brought by a legal party, be it a state, individual, or the federal government itself, when they have lost a ruling in the lower courts process and then ...

Cases and Controversies is a recurring series by Carolyn Shapiro, primarily focusing on the effects of the Supreme Court’s ...

We recognize that the emergency docket is a necessary part of Supreme Court business. It allows the court to address urgent ...

The shadow docket is simply the nickname for emergency actions taken by the Supreme Court that do not go through the full briefing and hearing process of a formal opinion. Here’s what one expert ...

The shadow, or emergency, docket, is the way many cases today, sometimes hugely consequential cases, are decided, without full briefing or oral argument, and without any written opinion.