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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

The order references pages 36-38 of the appellees' brief. That's where a group of self-described "non-African American voters" argue that Louisiana lacks a compelling interest to draw a second majority-Black congressional district to comply with the Voting Rights Act.

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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

In a 6-3 decision along ideological lines authored by Justice Clarence Thomas, the Supreme Court upheld a Texas law requiring porn sites to verify that users are at least 18 years old. It rejects a First Amendment challenge brought by the porn industry, which was represented by the ACLU.

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Justice Sonia Sotomayor is reading her dissent aloud. It's the third time this term.

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

By not including an opt-out option, the court ruled Montgomery County, Md., likely burdened the parents’ religious exercise in violation of the First Amendment.

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

In a 6-3 decision along ideological lines authored by Justice Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court rules for a group of parents seeking to opt out their children from instruction with books that include LGBTQ themes.

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

It rejects a challenge brought by a conservative nonprofit, who said the fund’s setup is unconstitutional under the non delegation doctrine, and sides with the federal government.

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

In a 6-3 decision authored by Justice Elena Kagan, the Supreme Court upheld the Universal Service Fund, a multibillion-dollar subsidy program that focuses on rural and low-income areas. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissented.

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

A group of individuals and businesses filed the constitutional challenge after objecting to covering HIV-prevention medication recommended by the task force.

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The decision keeps intact a provision of Obamacare that requires insurers to cover services the task force recommends without passing along costs to patients. It was defended by both the Biden and Trump administrations.

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

In a 6-3 decision authored by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court signs off on the structure of HHS’s Preventive Services Task Force, rejecting a challenge under the Constitution’s Appointments Clause. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissent.

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Justice Sonia Sotomayor is reading her dissent aloud from the bench.

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

In a 6-3 opinion along ideological lines, the Supreme Court allowed President Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship to go into effect in some areas of the country, for now, by curtailing judges’ ability to block the president’s policies nationwide.

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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

4th and final case of the day, Supreme Court wipes a lower court ruling in an immigration case. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Texas only allows DNA testing where favorable results would help prove a defendant’s innocence. But Gutierrez seeks the test merely to show he had a more limited role in a 1998 murder he says makes him ineligible for the death penalty. SCOTUS ruled Gutierrez has legal standing

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

3rd case: In a 6-3 decision authored by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court rules Texas death row inmate Ruben Gutierrez can proceed in his quest for DNA testing. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch dissent.

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing for the majority, ruled Medicaid recipients have no right to sue to enforce the Medicaid Act's provision that enables recipients to receive services from any "qualified" provider.

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

2nd case: In a 6-3 decision along ideological lines, the Supreme Court rules a challenge to South Carolina’s bid to defund Planned Parenthood cannot move forward.

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

It’s a win for the so-called “Scarecrow Bandits” convicted at a 2009 jury trial over a series of Dallas-area bank robberies. They had the federal government’s backing.

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Zach Schonfeld @zschonfeld.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

First case: In an 5-4 decision authored by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Supreme Court rules the First Step Act’s sentencing reductions do apply to defendants sentenced before the law was passed, if they are resentenced after the law.

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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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