Nuts and Bolts is a recurring series by Stephen Wermiel providing insights into the mechanics of how the Supreme Court works.

I am pleased to introduce SCOTUSblog readers to the Interim Docket Blog, where Will Baude, Dan Epps, I, and surely others, ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump lost at the U.S. Supreme Court in a case that was hidden on the emergency docket. (also known as the ...

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 ...

Legal experts agree that the US Supreme Court has been more active in issuing unexplained orders through its "shadow docket," which gives the Trump administration nearly carte blanche to further its ...

Emergency rulings are “fundamentally changing the way EPA authority works,” said one environmental lawyer. The Supreme Court is once again reaching out through its emergency docket to bring ...

EXCLUSIVE: The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency's non-detained docket has surged to over 7 million cases in fiscal year 2024. Internal federal data obtained by Fox News shows that ...

The title sounds more like a thriller than a legal treatise. The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court uses stealth rulings to amass power and undermine the republic" — and the author, University of ...

Chief Justice John Roberts turned heads this week when he criticized how the Supreme Court’s conservatives used the emergency docket, referred to by some as the shadow docket. The shadow docket is ...

A specialty docket, designed to help people experiencing mental health challenges, could be added to the Loudoun Juvenile and ...