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Zach Schonfeld

@zschonfeld.bsky.social
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Reporter covering the Supreme Court and the intersection of the judiciary & national politics for The Hill. zschonfeld@thehill.com.

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
SPOTTED: Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, went over to chat with Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley at today’s memorial for Sandra Day O’Connor. Grassley was the only lawmaker who showed up to the special session.
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Breaking: Judge Boasberg quashes subpoenas sent to the Federal Reserve Board as part of an investigation into Jerome Powell, per newly unsealed court records. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Mark your calendar: Oral arguments on Trump's new Section 122 tariffs are set for April 10 at the U.S. Court of International Trade
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
A guide to Supreme Court justices' attendance at the State of the Union: Roberts, Kagan & Kavanaugh typically go. Barrett skipped '24 but otherwise does, too. Sotomayor & Gorsuch sometimes go. Jackson went for Biden, but wasn't at Trump's speech last year. Alito & Thomas haven't gone in years.
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Supreme Court punts on whether the Trump administration can fire the head of the U.S. Copyright Office (part of the Library of Congress) It'll wait until deciding if Trump can fire the FTC's Rebecca Slaughter and the Fed's Lisa Cook. Clarence Thomas voted to OK the firing now
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
BREAKING: A federal judge DISMISSES former FBI Director James Comey's criminal indictment. "I agree with Mr. Comey that the Attorney General’s attempt to install Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was invalid." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
President Trump has brought his legal battle with E. Jean Carroll to the Supreme Court. The petition asks the justices to toss the jury’s verdict finding Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll in the 1990s (which Trump denies). thehill.com/regulation/c...
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
John Bolton has arrived at the federal courthouse in Greenbelt, Md. to surrender. No photos allowed inside here. But after he entered, he went to the bathroom and was then taken back into the US Marshals office
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
NY AG Letitia James's indictment has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Jamar Walker. Walker is an appointee of former President Biden who serves in Norfolk, Va.
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
NEW: The Supreme Court allows Trump to cancel $4 billion in appropriated foreign aid. The three liberal justices publicly dissented. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The Trump administration asks Supreme Court for the go-ahead to fire Lisa Cook www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
NEW: The Supreme Court rejects South Carolina's request to enforce its transgender bathroom ban against a transgender boy in 9th grade. The order says it "is not a ruling on the merits of the legal issues." Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissent
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
BREAKING: Supreme Court agrees to speedily review Trump's tariffs, setting the stage for a potentially blockbuster case. Oral arguments will be first week of November.
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Trump administration brings the fight over tariffs to the Supreme Court. The administration wants the justices to decide next week whether they'll take up the case and schedule oral arguments for early November. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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Tariff VOS Selections Cert Petition
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Supreme Court won't block Mississippi's social media age verification law, for now. But Justice Brett Kavanaugh suggests its unconstitutional and the tech industry's challenge will likely succeed in the end. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
New - The Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to lift a judge's limits on “indiscriminate” immigration raids in the Los Angeles area. It's the administration's 22nd emergency appeal to the high court since taking office: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Supreme Court announces the question they’ll consider when they rehear a major redistricting case in Louisiana next term: “Whether the State’s intentional creation of a second majority-minority congressional district violates the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution.”
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Spotted in the courtroom gallery for today’s tariff argument: Judge Pauline Newman, 98, the nation’s oldest active federal judge. Newman’s colleagues have prevented her from hearing new cases over concerns about her mental fitness. Newman is suing her colleagues over it.
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Not anymore! Trump admin files emergency application #21. This one seeks to cancel $783 million in NIH grants: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The Supreme Court has no pending emergency appeals from the Trump administration for the first time since March 25. With today’s ruling permitting Trump’s firing of CPSC members, all *20* of the admin’s emergency applications have been disposed of one way or another.
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Blanche is friends with Ghislaine Maxwell's attorney (David Oscar Markus), so there's already some rapport here:
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Here is Trump's suit over The Wall Street Journal's Epstein story: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Supreme Court allows resumption of Education Department layoffs in an apparent 6-3 vote along ideological lines. A lower judge had blocked a RIF impacting roughly half the department's workforce. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
First in @thehill.com A watchdog group is bringing a FOIA lawsuit seeking communications involving Emil Bove, a top DOJ official now nominated for an appeals court judgeship, following a whistleblower complaint: thehill.com/regulation/c...
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Supreme Court takes up whether states can ban transgender athletes from competing on girls’ and women’s school sports teams. The justices will hear appeals from Idaho and West Virginia. Decision expected by next summer. w/ @bmigdon.bsky.social thehill.com/regulation/c...
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Trump admin files its 20th emergency application at the Supreme Court since taking office. They want an emergency ruling greenlighting Trump's firings of Democratic appointees at the CPSC. The admin also encourages the court to take up the case in full: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Good morning from the Supreme Court, where we’re expecting all remaining opinions. We have 3 boxes. Follow along ->
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Chief Justice John Roberts announces all remaining opinions will be announced tomorrow. We have 6 left.
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
We have two boxes of opinions here at the Supreme Court, meaning expect 3-4 of the remaining 10 argued cases to come down today. Opinions start dropping at 10am. Follow along ->
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The Supreme Court lifted judge-imposed limits on the Trump administration’s ability to deport migrants to countries where they have no ties. The court's three liberals write a pretty scathing dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
The Supreme Court has laid out 3 boxes. So expect 5-6 opinions today of the 16 remaining.
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
9th Circuit allows Trump to remain in control of California National Guard, for now: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
The Supreme Court has three boxes out today, meaning expect 5-6 opinions of the remaining 21 to land today.
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Expect 5-6 opinions released today at the Supreme Court. The Public Information Office just laid out three boxes (each box usually fits 1-2 opinions)
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
California Gov. Gavin Newsom's lawsuit against Trump over deploying the National Guard to Los Angeles has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer. Nominated to the bench by Bill Clinton in 1997, Breyer is also the brother of retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
The Supreme Court hands two big wins to DOGE In separate emergency rulings, the court (1) allows DOGE to access Social Security Systems and (2) blocks an order requiring DOGE submit discovery in a FOIA lawsuit Both rulings appear to be along the court's 6-3 ideological lines
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow it to resume dismantling the Education Department. It's the administration's 19th emergency application at the court since taking office. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
BREAKING: Supreme Court extends block on some Alien Enemies Act deportation flights, chastising the Trump administration for not giving a group of Venezuelan migrants more due process. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissent www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
As is tradition, the Supreme Court justices have all released statements remembering the late retired Justice Souter.
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter died yesterday at his home in New Hampshire, the court announced. He was 85.
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Supreme Court allows Trump to enforce his ban on transgender troops serving openly in the military. The court's three liberal justices publicly dissent.
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The Trump administration files its 13th emergency application at the Supreme Court. This one seeks to lift a lower ruling blocking DOGE’s access to systems at the Social Security Administration: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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SSA v. AFSCME - Stay Application - final for filing 5.2.25
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to allow it to lift deportation protections for more than 600,000 Venezuelans under the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to allow President Trump to enforce his ban on transgender troops serving openly in the military. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
SPOTTED: Thomas Windom, one of the lead prosecutors on Trump's Jan. 6 criminal case, was admitted to the Supreme Court bar this morning. Windom sat in the front row in the courtroom. It was unclear if the justices knew who he was when his name was announced.
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Supreme Court temporarily halts the latest wave of Alien Enemies Act deportations. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissent.
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
‪Current state of play on ACLU's attempt to block what it says is an 'imminent' wave of Alien Enemies Act deportations to El Salvador: - ACLU has pending requests with Judge Boasberg, 5th Circuit, and SCOTUS to intervene *immediately* - Boasberg holding a hearing right now
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
4th Circuit declines to put on hold a judge's order to "faciliate" the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man mistakenly deported to El Salvador. The opinion, authored by Judge Wilkinson (a Reagan appointee), is blistering: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Supreme Court schedules rare May argument on the Trump administration's emergency request to narrow a series of nationwide injunctions blocking Trump's birthright citizenship executive order.
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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Judge James Boasberg has found probable cause to hold the Trump admin in contempt for failing to abide by his order. The order, later lifted by SCOTUS, blocked Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to swiftly deport people the administration accuses of being Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador.
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