For years, scholars and commentators have tracked the Supreme Court’s merits docket through detailed statistical analyses.

(NewsNation) — President Donald Trump’s administration has filed an unprecedented number of petitions to the Supreme Court’s so-called shadow docket, which have cleared the path for policies such as ...

The Supreme Court is siding overwhelmingly with President Donald Trump when challenges arrive via the emergency docket, a ...

The Department of Education has been gutted of its staff, critical National Institute of Health research has been canceled, 16,000 federal workers have been fired, and $4 billion allocated by Congress ...

The New York Times published a big story over the past weekend featuring anonymous quotes from multiple federal judges who are worried about how the U.S. Supreme Court is seemingly going out of its ...

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at Balls and Strikes. On Thursday, a federal district judge allowed a lawsuit challenging the ...

Nuts and Bolts is a recurring series by Stephen Wermiel providing insights into the mechanics of how the Supreme Court works. Discussion of the Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” is everywhere. But why ...

Chief Justice John Roberts quietly defended the courts’ independence by focusing on history, not politics at the end of 2025.

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. As the Supreme Court wrapped ...