We’re two weeks into observing local court hearings, and we already have some takeaways. This month, Chicago Documenters launched its court watching pilot with the aim of tracking how the Cook County ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But to truly understand the term, we must also take stock of the so-called shadow docket, where the justices decide emergency ...

Even casual Supreme Court watchers understand that some of the court’s most important work these days is done on the shadow docket. Also known as the emergency docket, it refers to the relatively ...