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The Supreme Court and lower courts clashed multiple times in contentious cases in 2025, a year of fierce legal battles.

The Supreme Court’s emergency docket dominated 2025, with the justices considering a surge of challenges to President Donald Trump’s actions that upended its normal operations and resulted in an ...

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 ...

Washington — The Supreme Court spent much of its most recent term responding to a fire hose of requests for emergency relief sought by the Trump administration, as President Trump's efforts to ...

Emergency rulings are “fundamentally changing the way EPA authority works,” said one environmental lawyer. The Supreme Court is once again reaching out through its emergency docket to bring ...

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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency's non-detained docket has surged to over 7 million cases in fiscal year 2024. Internal federal data obtained by Fox News shows that ...

"A district court has broad discretion and inherent authority to manage its docket. That's what it did here, much to the apparent dismay of the Fifth Circuit," U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman said. A ...

Trump's emergency application to stay his sentencing has the docket number 24A666. Sometimes, the truth is stranger than fiction. To the majority's credit, there is a brief explanation why the stay ...

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito launched a litany of acerbic barbs at critics of the Supreme Court's so-called shadow docket on Thursday. Noting that the term was coined in a 2015 law review ...