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Anastasia Boden has a thing for liberty—and a borderline obsessive relationship with the Supreme Court. While most people unplug with Netflix and a glass of wine, she’s devouring SCOTUS transcripts and tracking how the Justices are reshaping your rights. Her newsletter, SCOTUS Scoop, delivers sharp, liberty-forward takes on the Court’s biggest decisions—every other Thursday, with just the right mix of brains and bite.
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Bust out your pumpkin spice lattes and pocket Constitutions. It’s October, which means the justices (and I) are back. What can you expect this term? Extra pumpkin spice. We’re getting cases involving conversion therapy, trans athletes in sports, and executive power....
The term hath endeth! The justices are slathering on the SPF, teaching classes in Italy, gallivanting in their RVs, and doing whatever else it is that the justices do for the summer. Justices, they’re just like us—but with robes. After this scoop of SCOTUS, we’ll have...
It’s been nice to get some unanimous opinions lately. Given that we’re near the end of the term, some especially vigorous disagreements are sure to arise. Discrimination is discrimination is discrimination Surprising no one, the Court unanimously held in Ames v. Ohio...
**Non-Opinion Opinion Watch ** The Supreme Court released its opinion in a highly anticipated case about whether a group could become the nation’s first religious charter school. Unfortunately, the case ended with a whimper, not a bang: Justice Barrett recused...
The Quiet Disappointments of Justice David Souter Former Supreme Court Justice David Souter has passed away. In my latest for the Daily Journal, I reflect on his tenure. Justice Souter’s modesty, humility, and deference made him well-liked by others on the bench but...
A lot of interesting developments. Thus, much like the Ninth Amendment, the inclusion of certain court orders, opinions, or oral arguments is not meant to deny or disparage the existence of others. There’s just only so much space per scoop. Mo’ cases, mo’ problems The...
There’s so much interesting stuff happening at the Court that you get not one, but two scoops of SCOTUS this week. In Part I, I’ll discuss all of the opinions that were released over the past two weeks. In Part II, we’ll recap some of the wild oral arguments. Let’s...
Happy Thursday, SCOTUS Lovers. There weren’t any arguments over the past two weeks, but here’s a quick update on what else was happening at the marble palace that never sleeps. Political accountability is for lovers On Valentine’s Day, the Trump administration asked...
Happy New Year! A lot has happened in the first couple weeks of 2025. In fact, a massive social media company has already managed to argue before the Court, get an adverse decision, shut down for a day, and be promptly revived! Let’s get to it. The so-called...
Happy Holidays! My gift to you is this incredibly informative (and perfectly charming) newsletter summing up the past two weeks at the Supreme Court. TikTok time’s up? The Court announced yesterday that it will hear arguments in TikTok’s challenge to a law requiring...
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