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A newsletter by Anastasia Boden

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.

What You’ll Get:

  • Court Watch: The biggest SCOTUS cases broken down in plain English
  • Liberty Lens: What these rulings mean for your constitutional rights
  • Sharp Analysis: From an experienced litigator who’s been in the fight
Big decisions at the Supreme Court

Big decisions at the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has started releasing the blockbuster opinions everyone’s been waiting for. This week brought major decisions on property rights, religious liberty, immigration, and the Second Amendment. Here’s what stood out to me. The Pungs live to fight another...

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The Calm Before the Avalanche

The Calm Before the Avalanche

The Calm Before the Avalanche But first… Guys, your new favorite podcast is out! I love a good Supreme Court dissent—so I created a podcast about them. In the first season, we get meta; we talk about America’s first great dissent—The Declaration of...

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Let the big cases begin!

Let the big cases begin!

Last night I talked with Jesse Weber of NewsNation about the Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais, which significantly shifted how courts will consider certain claims under the Voting Rights Act. Watch it here.     The last oral argument of the...

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Tariffs, Takings, and Les Mis

Tariffs, Takings, and Les Mis

Two quick, but important scoops. First, the Court released its opinion in the highly anticipated tariffs case. Second, PLF is back at SCOTUS (baby!). The Tariffs Case: 170 Pages, Six Opinions, One Historic Result Last week the Supreme Court handed down its ruling in...

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New year, new SCOTUS opinions

New year, new SCOTUS opinions

The Supreme Court has issued its first handful (or scoop, if you will) of opinions. And it heard oral arguments in one of the most closely watched cases of the term. But first, the bad news. On Monday, the Court rejected six PLF petitions for review: Hierholzer...

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Why can’t we hold rights violators accountable?

Why can’t we hold rights violators accountable?

Are you still full from Thanksgiving? Here’s a scoop of SCOTUS to go with your leftover mashed potatoes. Why can’t we hold rights violators accountable? The Court recently heard arguments in the case of a man whose dreadlocks were forcibly shaved—contrary to his...

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Guns, drugs, and ghosts of doctrines past 

Guns, drugs, and ghosts of doctrines past 

Happy Halloween, SCOTUS lovers. Need a last-minute costume? Don’t want to be Taylor “Swift Justice?” Go as “The Dissenter.” All black robe, dramatic lace jabot à la RBG, and add fake blood on a scroll for Halloween flair. You are now: “When your dissent was so good,...

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The justices and I are back

The justices and I are back

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....

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Judges should judge

Judges should judge

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...

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Discrimination is discrimination is discrimination

Discrimination is discrimination is discrimination

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...

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