U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Thursday pushed back against criticism over the high court’s limited ...

Speaking at the Eighth Circuit Judicial Conference this week, Justice Brett Kavanaugh addressed concerns about the Supreme Court's failure ...

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

A court is supposed to explain things,” the Obama appointee said during her appearance at a circuit conference. “That’s what ...

For a better understanding of the shadow docket, we posed a few key questions to Steve Vladeck, a CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor at the University of Texas School of Law, who is writing a ...

Republicans also greatly benefited from the shadow docket, the book points out, after the Supreme Court, acting on emergency petitions, allowed Alabama and Louisiana to use in the 2022 midterms ...

That renders the Court’s emergency docket not for emergencies at all. The docket becomes only another place for merits determinations—except made without full briefing and argument. The Supreme Court ...

Like there’s always been a shadow docket – weird things have happened. LBJ was able to steal the 1948 Democratic Senate primary in Texas because of a shadow docket order.

For a better understanding of the shadow docket, we posed a few key questions to Steve Vladeck, a CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor at the University of Texas School of Law, who is writing a ...

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

Jurisprudence “Shadow Dockets” Are Normal. The Way SCOTUS Is Using Them Is the Problem. The Supreme Court is not a trial court. By Steve Vladeck April 12, 20216:09 PM Ian Hutchinson on Unsplash ...