New York Times Chief Legal Affairs Correspondent Adam Liptak and Professor Sam Bray. Photos by Lloyd DeGrane. At the 2026 ...

Harvard magazine reports on recent comments by retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer on the "shadow docket." Although Justice ...

Chief Justice John Roberts was the driving force behind the rise of the Supreme Court’s emergency docket as a powerful tool to empower the activist conservative majority — that’s the main takeaway of ...

The New York Times got its hands on a cache of private memos written by members of SCOTUS to each other about a hugely ...

The Trump administration urged the justices to rely on earlier terse emergency rulings and explain “what to make of this ...

The Times unearthed memos that signaled a major shift in the court’s operations, in a decision that critics say was rushed ...

For years, scholars and commentators have tracked the Supreme Court’s merits docket through detailed statistical analyses. SCOTUSblog’s Stat Pack has become an essential resource for understanding how ...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has stepped up her criticism of the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court for increasingly deciding cases on an emergency basis without letting them play out in lower ...

Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and lower courts, and for people’s lives. Please ...

In the Interim is a recurring series by Taraleigh Davis on the Supreme Court’s emergency docket, using data to help explain ...

Over the last few years, the Supreme Court has reshaped constitutional norms to align with its conservative leaning, with profound consequences for the nation's health. That trend is likely to ...