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Since 2017, the Supreme Court has significantly increased its use of the process by which the justices hear and resolves emergency appeals, sometimes known as the shadow docket. These decisions are made without oral argument and often come in short unsigned orders. Stephen Vladeck, the Charles Alan

In The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic, University of Texas law professor Stephen Vladeck argues that the U.S. Supreme Court is expanding its powers at the expense of the rule of law and public transparency.

Contradictory court orders put the abortion drug mifepristone in "uncharted territory."

Judge Kacsmaryk decided to come after me—even though I’m not involved in that case in any way.

He is the Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts at the University of Texas School of Law.

The Supreme Court on Feb. 21 rejected a case that was seeking to overturn the 2020 election. Justices ...

Supported by the Republican-led Senate, the 30 bills announced by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Monday have a high chance of passing.

Eighth Circuit panel unanimously imposes preliminary injunction, ruling that states have standing and that the policy’s potential impact on state finances could be “irreversible.”

Democratic Representative Jan Schakowsky said the Supreme Court justice had a "laundry list of impeachable offenses."

Trumps lawyers on Tuesday sent an appeal to the Supreme Court to reinstate a special master review of classified documents seized by the FBI in August.