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 ...
Twelve years ago, the Supreme Court held in a 5–4 decision in Maryland v. King that police departments could perform cheek swabs on people they take into custody and use the DNA sample for criminal ...
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 ...
The U.S. Supreme Court's "Shadow Docket" conjures up this mysterious image of justices surreptitiously moving through the Supreme Court building in the dead of night, making monumental, yet anonymous ...
Like clockwork, each June brings the Supreme Court back to the forefront of America’s culture wars, as the justices issue major new opinions that are equal parts significant and divisive—precipitating ...
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 ...