What do we call the Supreme Court deciding cases quickly, without full briefing or oral argument? I asked 1,455 Americans in a survey, and the results are pretty interesting. New piece over at "In the Interim" on @scotusblog.com www.scotusblog.com/2026/08/what...

What the public thinks about the emergency docket

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Did you know that if a justice denies your emergency application in chambers, you can refile with a different justice of your choice? Which justice litigants choose to refile with tells a fascinating story. New piece over at "In the Interim" @scotusblog.com www.scotusblog.com/2026/07/just...

Justice shopping on the emergency docket?

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How often do courts actually cite Supreme Court emergency docket orders? Probably more than you think. New piece over at “In the Interim” @scotusblog.com www.scotusblog.com/2026/05/how-...

How often do courts actually cite emergency docket orders?

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It’s been a long time coming, but I am proud to announce that In the Shadows of the Emergency Docket: What Emergency Applications Teach Us About Supreme Court Procedure, Precedent, and Public Opinion is forthcoming from the University of Virginia Press!

Always an honor to be quoted w/ @trjumn.bsky.social @anthonymkreis.bsky.social Taraleigh Davis said that it seemed clear during the arguments in the Cook case that the justices want to protect the Fed. "But I didn't hear an answer to what legal principle actually distinguishes the Fed from the FTC”

Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“There are going to be a series of losses for the Trump administration, but I think they pale in comparison to the number of wins that the administration will get," Georgia State University law professor Anthony Michael Kreis said.” www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

The New York Times asked why the justices "bypassed time-tested procedures" in 2016. They didn't. They used exactly the procedures they have for decades. New piece in @scotusblog.com from my new monthly recurring series "In the Interim.” www.scotusblog.com/2026/04/what...

What the New York Times got wrong – and right – about the emergency docket

In the Interim is a recurring series by Taraleigh Davis on the Supreme Court’s emergency docket, using data to help explain how it works. Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak of […]

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We treat emergency docket orders as data. But what if the public record doesn't reflect how the justices actually voted or why? My latest at @scotusblog.com www.scotusblog.com/2026/04/what...

What really happens on the emergency docket

By now, readers of SCOTUSblog are quite familiar with the Supreme Court’s emergency docket, where parties come to the court seeking emergency orders, oftentimes without full briefing and oral argument...

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Introducing the Interim Relief Docket Stat Pack

Introducing the Interim Relief Docket Stat Pack

For years, scholars and commentators have tracked the Supreme Court’s merits docket through detailed statistical analyses. SCOTUSblog’s Stat Pack has become an essential resource for understanding how...

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Have you ever wished you had a Stat Pack for Supreme Court emergency applications like the one @dradamfeldman.bsky.social and @jaketruscott.bsky.social put together for the merits docket? Well now you do! Now live over on @scotusblog.com www.scotusblog.com/2026/01/intr...

Introducing the Interim Relief Docket Stat Pack

For years, scholars and commentators have tracked the Supreme Court’s merits docket through detailed statistical analyses. SCOTUSblog’s Stat Pack has become an essential resource for understanding how...

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Oh we are hearing motions and not just oral argument?!?

"They're continuing this post-Dobbs federalism framework of returning any type of contested moral social issues back to the democratic process at the state level," Davis said.

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US Supreme Court girds for culture wars with LGBT, guns and race cases reut.rs/42s9DO6

This expansion in turn boosts Trump's power, Davis added, b/c if administration officials know they are "likely to receive a stay on the emergency docket they can implement controversial policies immediately & fight the legal battle with the policy already in effect." www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

US Supreme Court expands its 'emergency' docket - and Trump's power too

As she has done several times recently, liberal Justice Elena Kagan last week sounded the alarm after another bold emergency action by the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority again let President Donald Trump carry out one of his policies without taking the usual time or deliberation to review its legality.

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My latest piece at @scotusblog.com is out! I’ve spent years tracking how long it takes the Court to decide on emergency applications so you don’t have to. Here’s what I found. www.scotusblog.com/2025/09/is-t...

Is the emergency docket really for emergencies?

If you’re requesting emergency relief from the Supreme Court, how long should you expect to wait for a decision? In other words, does the court really treat emergency applications as […]

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“Missives of the type written by Gorsuch and Burroughs are highly unusual, according to Taraleigh Davis, a Bradley University professor who has written about the shadow docket.” www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Judges vexed by Supreme Court 'shadow docket' rulings in Trump cases

An extraordinary spat is occurring within the U.S. judiciary concerning a flurry of Supreme Court decisions.

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I’m really excited to announce that last week I signed an advance contract with UVA Press for my book “In the Shadow of the Emergency Docket: Emergency Applications and the Evolution of Judicial Power” to appear in UVA Press’s book series Constitutionalism and Democracy!

Why didn’t anyone tell me? :(

Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account)@thetattooedprof.bsky.social · last yr.

This is, sadly, the last year of Mudcats baseball. The neighboring Raleigh exurb of Wilson built a shiny new park about 30 miles away from here, and the team is moving after this season to become the Wilson Warhawks. Which means we lose perhaps the best logo in all baseball:

Great read on the dissent - data contradicts Alito's claim granting emergency relief w/o gov’t response was “unprecedented” It only requests responses in 33% of cases & grants 46% of those. The Court granted relief w/o responses in 11% of emergency apps (16-21) Not unprecedented—just less common.

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · last yr.

Today’s “One First” takes a (very) deep dive into Justice Alito’s Saturday night dissent in the A.A.R.P. Alien Enemy Act case—and how it attempts to invent a series of procedural objections to the majority’s intervention that … simply don’t exist: www.stevevladeck.com/p/145-justic...

Jackson in her dissent (joined by Sotomayor) argued that application lacked urgency since the TRO would expire in three days, the Dept abruptly terminated over 100 grants with min. explanation & appeared arbitrary and capricious, harm to states and education institutions was significant and concrete

24A910 Order

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SCOTUS just overturned a TRO in Dept of Ed v. Ca - deciding it was actually a preliminary injunction in disguise. They also determined the Gov’t would likely succeed in showing the DC lacked jurisdiction to order payment under the APA. Respond. Wouldn’t suffer irreparable harm if TRO was stayed

Chief Justice Roberts requests a response by April 1st in Trump v. J.G.G. (24A931) AEA case with Judge Boasberg - Fun Fact at the end of last term it looks like we were up to 24A215 so from Oct 2024 to now we’ve made it to 931! #shadowdocket #trumpeo #aea

Justice Kagan requests a response by April 3 in OPM v. American Federation of Government Employees (24A904) the SG requested an administrative stay as well as a stay of the injunction that ordered the rehiring of 16,000 probationary employees www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?...

Second and last case of the day Bondi v. Vanderstock - Gorsuch writes for 7-2 majority that the ATF’s rule regulating ghost guns is valid. Thomas and Alito dissent saying that the text of the Act doesn’t cover unfinished parts and that weapons parts kits aren’t “weapons” until assembled

Court issued 2 opinions this morning first in U.S. v Miller Justice Jackson writes in an 8-1 opinion that the trustee in the case can’t recover the money from the IRS. Gorsuch dissents saying the government can be sued because Congress removed their special protection in bankruptcy cases.

Chief Justice Roberts requests a response by April 4th in Trump v. CASA (24A884) I think it’s notable the amount of time AND that there is no temporary stay of the lower courts in the meantime www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?...

Throwback to Con Law in the Fall where my class argued the Glossip case - they came out 4-4 based on how they thought their justice would rule. (Yes Gorsuch recused but he was still there for the assignment’s sake) @bradleyupolisci.bsky.social

Happy to share that my article on procedural legitimacy, the shadow docket, and support for the U.S. Supreme Court from APR is out! journals.sagepub.com/eprint/B7CHBCB… #shadowdocket #apr #courtlegitimacy

Autocrats in the Reputation Era: my new research shows they support independent courts when they fear karma’s coming. #firstview www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Fitting first post on this app! Y’all “I believe the study has the potential to add meaningfully to the literature on this topic, and so I am pleased to invite you to revise the manuscript along the lines suggested by the reviewers.” Aaaaaahhhh! My 1st solo R&R!