---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 3904"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "3904"
heading: "Expedited review of certain appeals"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/3904"
units:
  - "Part VI — Particular Proceedings"
  - "Chapter 179 — Judicial Review of Certain Actions by Presidential Offices"
---

# §3904. Expedited review of certain appeals

- (a) **In General.—** An appeal may be taken directly to the Supreme [Court](/usc/28/3002.md?p=2) of the [United States](/usc/28/3002.md?p=15) from any interlocutory or final [judgment](/usc/28/3002.md?p=8), decree, or order of a [court](/usc/28/3002.md?p=2) upon the constitutionality of any provision of chapter 5 of title 3.
- (b) **Jurisdiction.—** The Supreme [Court](/usc/28/3002.md?p=2) shall, if it has not previously ruled on the question, accept jurisdiction over the appeal referred to in [subsection (a)](#a), advance the appeal on the docket, and expedite the appeal to the greatest extent possible.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–331, § 3(c), Oct. 26, 1996, 110 Stat. 4070.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1997, see section 3(d) of Pub. L. 104–331, set out as a note under section 1296 of this title.