This week the Supreme Court began a new term, and there are several consequential cases on the docket. The Onion previews ...

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Those cases, however, were all from the Supreme Court's emergency docket, sometimes also known among its critics as the shadow docket. The Court's regular docket, in which the justices only decide ...

This week may have fallen within the Supreme Court’s summer recess, but it wasn’t exactly restful for the justices – or for the team behind this newsletter. There was a flurry of activity in the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court heard its first four cases of the new term this week, with most attention focused on a blockbuster hearing involving states' and cities' attempts to hold oil companies ...

Next week the Supreme Court will return from its summer recess to hear a new term of cases. While the court is already slated to make rulings with far-reaching consequences, the most important ...