Shadow Docket Requests Threaten to Delay High Court Opinions (1)

The Trump administration could ruin the Supreme Court’s summer recess.

It’s already filed an unprecedented number of emergency requests for the court’s intervention and there’s no signs of any let up as the justices head into their last and busiest months of the term, legal scholars said. The extra work threatens to delay the release of opinions and force the justices to rule on requests well into July.

“In a regular term, May and June are extraordinarily busy at the Supreme Court because they’re trying to get all of their opinions out and they’re facing a backlog ...