What the public thinks about the emergency docket

What the public thinks about the emergency docket

by | Aug 20, 2026 | Law

This column has generally been about what the emergency docket does: how fast the justices act, how often lower courts cite its orders, who dissents on it and in what form, and where denied litigants go when they refile. This month covers something different. Scholars...
Slaughter’s vice

Slaughter’s vice

by | Aug 20, 2026 | Law

As a new school year gets underway, law students might expect to soon be called upon to answer a seemingly simple question: What did the Supreme Court hold in Trump v. Slaughter? A student who has dutifully done the reading might respond by quoting the chief justice’s...