U.S. Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court's emergency docket often results in temporary halts of lower-court rulings because the Court may issue decisions without full briefing or oral argument.

Frequent grants of emergency applications can create a feedback loop that incentivizes the solicitor general to seek additional emergency relief from the Supreme Court.

By 2025-10-06, in the eight months after President Donald J. Trump began his 2025 term, the U.S. Supreme Court had approved 20 emergency requests from the president to block lower-court orders and had denied three such emergency requests.

The U.S. Supreme Court's term beginning in October 2025 includes cases addressing the constitutional scope of presidential power, challenges related to the Voting Rights Act, and legal disputes over presidential tariff authority.

Emergency orders granted by the U.S. Supreme Court without full briefing and oral argument are temporary and can be revisited when a case returns to the court for full briefing and argument.

The U.S. Supreme Court customarily does not provide public explanations when it declines to take up a case.

U.S. district courts can issue nationwide injunctions that block federal policies across the United States, and the U.S. Supreme Court has issued rulings that narrow the circumstances under which nationwide injunctions may be granted.

The U.S. Supreme Court can grant emergency appeals that temporarily allow challenged policies to go into effect while the underlying legal issues are litigated in lower courts.

The U.S. Supreme Court can reverse preliminary nationwide injunctions issued by lower federal courts, which can permit challenged policies to take effect pending full judicial review.

The U.S. Supreme Court's 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade and returned authority to regulate abortion to individual states.

Following the U.S. Supreme Court's 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade, some Supreme Court justices received death threats and experienced heightened security at their homes and during public appearances.

The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, removing the federal constitutional right to abortion established by the 1973 Roe decision.

In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court held that states can regulate health providers' speech when it struck down a California law that required anti-abortion 'crisis pregnancy centers' to provide information about how to obtain abortions.

In Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), the U.S. Supreme Court held that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry.

A Supreme Court precedent from about 1935 required that a president have cause, such as neglect of duty, before removing certain Senate-confirmed independent-agency officials from their jobs.

An 1898 U.S. Supreme Court ruling has long been interpreted to support birthright citizenship for children born in the United States regardless of their parents' immigration status.

The Red Mass is an annual Roman Catholic liturgy held to mark the start of the U.S. Supreme Court term.

Michael Nachmanoff argued and won a U.S. Supreme Court case that contributed to reducing racial disparities in federal crack cocaine sentencing.