Speaking to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit's Judicial Conference, Justice Brett Kavanaugh suggests that the "interim docket" is a better label for the Supreme Court's docket of ...

New York Times Chief Legal Affairs Correspondent Adam Liptak and Professor Sam Bray. Photos by Lloyd DeGrane. At the 2026 ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. By now, readers of SCOTUSblog are quite familiar with the Supreme Court’s emergency docket, where parties come to the court ...

In today's New York Times, Adam Liptak reports on the emerging debate among commentators and Supreme Court justices about what to call the Supreme Court's docket of requests for emergency or interim ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. By now, you’ve probably heard a great deal about the Supreme Court’s interim relief docket, also known as the emergency or ...

"There used to be a time when we had a good chunk of a summer break," Justice Sonia Sotomayor said. "Not anymore. The emergency calendar is busy almost on a weekly basis." You don't need to be a fly ...

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide another Second Amendment case this term, taking on the question of whether a federal law that bars gun possession by anyone who is “an unlawful user of or ...

A proposal in a 1987 law review article could address a gap that makes it all but impossible to sue federal officials for violating the Constitution. By Adam Liptak Search of Reporter’s Home Tests Law ...