Arbitrary control over its own docket is the hallmark of the modern Supreme Court. While the
Court's power to choose its cases is a frequent subject of study, its practice of preselecting …

The United States has recently been engaged in some of the largest civil rights movements
since the 1960s-from Black Lives Matter to# MeTooand calls for justice for marginalized …

The shadow docket3 has become a hot topic. 4 The term is a" catchy" 5 name for the set of
truncated procedures that the Supreme Court uses to simplify and expedite its decision …

Studies have established the influence of ideology on the answers justices give to legal
questions; this study shows that the questions themselves are often selected, framed, and …

This Article breaks new ground by showing how the same power that allows the passive
virtues also permits the" active vices." Building on recent scholarship on the Court's targeting …

There is increasing interest, both in academic circles and in the public discourse, about
measures to fix the United States Supreme Court. 1 Political commentators and scholars …

Supreme Court observers could be forgiven for feeling confused on January 13, 2022. On
that temperate winter day in Washington, DC, the Court released two per curiam decisions …

The first, hidden stage of the Supreme Court's agenda-setting process is the formation of the
“discuss list,” the small set of cases actually considered in conference. Yet few have …

美國聯邦最高法院(Supreme Court of the United States; SCOTUS) 究竟是經由什麼樣的審理
流程, 運用何種作業機制與方法, 就每年數以千計的待審案件(docket), 做出它的審查決定呢 …

Although the literature on US Supreme Court agenda-setting is sizable, justice-vote-level
multivariate analyses of certiorari are almost exclusively limited to samples of discussed …