Today the Supreme Court issued another order on the emergency docket. In Office of Personnel Management v. American Federation of Government Employees, a federal district court ordered the ...

President Donald Trump has an almost flawless record on the Supreme Court’s emergency docket this year, a streak that has delivered crucial moments of relief to the government as it fights hundreds of ...

Legal experts agree that the US Supreme Court has been more active in issuing unexplained orders through its "shadow docket," which gives the Trump administration nearly carte blanche to further its ...

Vladeck holds the Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts at the University of Texas School of Law. His latest book is The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power ...

The title sounds more like a thriller than a legal treatise. The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court uses stealth rulings to amass power and undermine the republic" — and the author, University of ...