FILE - President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., Aug. 31, 2022. A document purporting to be from the U.S. government and claiming the Treasury Department had information related ...
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 ...
This is a part of Disorder in the Court, a weeklong series on the legal press and the most explosive Supreme Court in generations: how we cover it, how we’ve failed, and how we can do better. This ...
On Friday night, the clock ticked toward the Supreme Court’s 11:59 p.m. self-imposed deadline to rule on access to medication abortion. Deeply conservative lower-court judges had thrown down the ...
On September 1, the Supreme Court allowed Texas’s SB 8 to go into effect. This law, which Justice Sonia Sotomayor called “a breathtaking act of defiance — of the Constitution, of [the Supreme] Court’s ...
The shadow docket, a phrase coined by University of Chicago Law School professor William Baude, does not possess the transparency and disclosure of a typical docket. Here’s why that matters. Florida’s ...
To get a personal-injury suit to jury trial in the nation’s clogged state courts now takes an average of 20 months. The rising crush of auto-accident cases causes big-city litigants to face delays ...
Former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach. Photo: Steve Helber/AP. When a government document mysteriously appeared earlier this week in the highest profile case in the federal ...