| 2026-09-03 | DOJ Files Its Second SCOTUS Emergency Application on the USPS Mail-Ballot Rule, 61 Days Before Midterms
5 src U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. Postal Service · Supreme Court of the United States · Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-28 | SCOTUS Lifts the Block on Trump's Mail-Voting Order as Premature; the USPS Rule Takes Effect, North Carolina Complies First, and Talwani Blocks It Again
1 src Indira Talwani · Ketanji Brown Jackson · U.S. Postal Service | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-26 | Talwani Vacates Her Own Mail-Ballot Injunction After SCOTUS Stay; USPS Publishes the Final Rule the Same Day
4 src Supreme Court of the United States · U.S. Postal Service · Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-24 | SCOTUS Shadow-Docket Stay 6-3 Lifts Block on Trump Mail-Ballot EO Ten Weeks Before Midterms
4 src Supreme Court of the United States · Donald Trump · Indira Talwani · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-22 | Analysis Finds 97 Percent of Trump DOJ Emergency SCOTUS Filings Claim Judges Are Interfering With Presidential Power
4 src Supreme Court of the United States · Department of Justice · Ketanji Brown Jackson · Brett Kavanaugh · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-12 | Judge Talwani Expands Mail-Ballot EO Block Nationwide, Issues Second Injunction; SCOTUS Silent 18 Days
4 src Indira Talwani · Donald Trump · U.S. Postal Service · Supreme Court of the United States | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-03 | SCOTUS Sets August 3 Response Deadline on Trump's Emergency Mail-Ballot Appeal as Midterms Near
3 src Donald Trump · Supreme Court of the United States · United States Postal Service | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-28 | Trump Administration Races to SCOTUS Shadow Docket for Mail-Ballot Restrictions After First Circuit Upholds Block
2 src Donald Trump · United States Postal Service | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-02 | ProPublica: Supreme Court's October 2025 Term First to Decide More Cases by Shadow Docket Than Argued Opinion
2 src Supreme Court of the United States · ProPublica | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-25 | Supreme Court (Mullin v. Doe, 6-3) Lets Trump End Haitian and Syrian TPS, Holds Terminations Shielded from Judicial Review
6 src Supreme Court of the United States · Samuel Alito · Elena Kagan · Sonia Sotomayor · +4 | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-02 | SCOTUS Shadow-Docket Order Reinstates Alabama GOP Map for 2026, Staying Lower-Court Finding of Intentional Racial Discrimination
5 src Alabama Legislature · ACLU | | confirmed |
| 2026-04-18 | NYT publishes Kantor/Liptak investigation of leaked 2016 SCOTUS memos documenting the origins of the modern shadow (interim) docket
8 src |
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| 2025-12-19 | Supreme Court Rejects Trump Administration Emergency Request to Silence Immigration Judges, First Major Loss on Shadow Docket
4 src Supreme Court of the United States · Donald Trump · Department of Justice · Leonie Brinkema · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-11-06 | SCOTUS shadow-docket stay in Trump v. Orr clears State Department passport policy requiring sex-at-birth marker
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2025-10-03 | SCOTUS second shadow-docket stay in Noem v. National TPS Alliance pauses summary judgment order restoring Venezuelan TPS
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2025-09-08 | SCOTUS shadow-docket stay in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo permits ICE to use ethnicity, Spanish fluency, location, and occupation as reasonable-suspicion factors
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2025-08-21 | SCOTUS shadow-docket stay in NIH v. American Public Health Association clears DEI-flagged grant terminations (Tucker Act routing)
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2025-06-06 | SCOTUS shadow-docket stay in U.S. DOGE Service v. CREW narrows FOIA discovery against DOGE, shielding internal operations
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2025-05-30 | SCOTUS shadow-docket stay in Noem v. Doe clears Trump termination of CHNV humanitarian parole affecting ~500,000 Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, Venezuelan migrants
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2025-05-22 | SCOTUS 6-3 shadow-docket stay in Trump v. Wilcox greenlights presidential removal of NLRB and MSPB members, effectively narrowing Humphrey's Executor
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2025-05-19 | SCOTUS shadow-docket stay in Noem v. National TPS Alliance clears Venezuelan Temporary Protected Status termination (initial stay)
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2025-05-06 | SCOTUS 6-3 shadow-docket stay in United States v. Shilling lifts injunction on Trump transgender military ban
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2025-04-08 | SCOTUS shadow-docket stay in OPM v. AFGE lifts district-court order reinstating 16,000 probationary federal employees
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2025-04-07 | SCOTUS 5-4 shadow-docket stay in Trump v. J.G.G. vacates TROs blocking Alien Enemies Act removals of Venezuelan nationals
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2025-04-04 | SCOTUS 5-4 shadow-docket stay in Department of Education v. California clears termination of DEI-flagged teacher-training grants
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2025-01-23 | Supreme Court stays Fifth Circuit's nationwide injunction of Corporate Transparency Act in McHenry v. Texas Top Cop Shop (shadow-docket order)
6 src |
| confirmed |
| 2024-06-27 | SCOTUS stays EPA 'Good Neighbor Plan' for cross-state smog program
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · Neil Gorsuch | | confirmed |