The shadow docket is how this Supreme Court steals judicial power from the rest of the federal courts. I’ve been banging this lonely drum for years now. One day people will realize this is true and important.

If you are as infuriated as you read this as I am, know that Congress not only has the power to fix the abuse of the Shadow Docket but also that the legislation is already drafted. We just need to get it to the floor. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Latest from @fixthecourt.com: Federal Judges Accepted Far Too Many Freebies in 2023 and 2024 (including one in Ohio) Federal judges reported receiving 407 gifts valued at $935,000, with some presenting conflicts requiring recusal. 👉 fixthecourt.com/2026/04/fede...

Federal judges reported receiving 407 gifts worth $935,000 in 2023-24 (i.e., the 2 most recent yrs for which 85%+ of disclosures are posted). *Any* gift acceptance exposes judges to unnecessary conflicts & justified criticism, but this is extreme fixthecourt.com/2026/04/fede....

Gabe Roth of @fixthecourt.com talks to @jimmyhoover.bsky.social about the justices’ overseas travel activities in this week's Supreme Court Brief. www.law.com/nationallawj...

We've received some documents via FOIA that may be of interest to folks who follow SCOTUS fixthecourt.com/2026/04/docu...

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was taken to a hospital after becoming ill last month at a Federalist Society dinner in Philadelphia, according to people with knowledge of the March 20 incident. https://cnn.it/4vaNP6k

Two weeks after a new #SCOTUS rule went into effect requiring that ticker symbols are included in filings, are the parties following it? Turns out, they are for the most part fixthecourt.com/2026/03/are-....

New SCOTUS book tour about to drop: reaganfoundation.org/events/conve... (May 5 in Calif. w/ livestream). See all past & upcoming SCOTUS events from 2026 here: fixthecourt.com/2026/03/2026....

WE KNOW

Yes + what's also in the bill the Senate passed last night is $30MM for #SCOTUS security, which is critical since it'll free up the USMS deputies currently doing the residential work to now focus more on protecting lower court judges

🚨🚨Utah is now the 49th state requiring judges to file annual financial disclosures after Gov. Cox signs H.B. 540 le.utah.gov/Session/2026... (Idaho: ❌). Bill also creates single access point for court records & reduces costs to view & download (50 free of each/mo). Not quite "free PACER" but close!

Bookmarking this sentence from an SG brief (!) filed yesterday for no reason at all: "Overwhelming evidence showed that [a gov't official] expressly solicited financial contributions in exchange for performing or agreeing to perform specific official action." www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

Just in: Gorsuch has recused in a case due to ties to billionaire Phil Anschutz. This one concerns seaside landowner's attempt to dredge adjacent waters, w the landowner here, Sea Island, being owned by an Anschutz co. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... See, not so hard [staring in other justices...]

Cameras in the Supreme Court: www.supremecourt.gov/oconnorbarme...

The Supreme Court today is holding an invitation-only bar memorial for the late Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. The memorial will be livestreamed—which is a nice reminder that the court is perfectly capable of livestreaming oral arguments if it really wanted to. www.supremecourt.gov/oconnorbarme...

"I'm willing to take a not guilty. I'm willing to take a no true bill." What she means is she's willing to bring legally deficient cases that harass innocent defendants, waste her line prosecutors' time, and makes her office look like jerkoffs in front of judges and juries.

Judges and retired judges are shouting from the rooftops about these attacks & threats. That is absolutely not something federal judges are accustomed to doing. I interpret their speaking up themselves as a sign of powerful frustration among judges with the Chief Justice’s handling of this crisis.

Chief Justice Roberts just now: "Personally directed hostility [at judges] is dangerous, & it's got to stop." Wonder who Roberts is talking about? youtube.com/watch?v=j8vU...

NEW: We go circuit by circuit across the federal judiciary & explain how to file complaints against judges fixthecourt.com/2026/03/fix-...

Who's going to be the first to submit a filing that reflects the #SCOTUS rule change on publicly traded companies? Guess we'll find out later in the week...

Ahead of Monday rule change where briefs filed by public cos. + subsidiaries must include ticker symbol, #SCOTUS has new wavier form that includes line for ticker symbols supremecourt.gov/casehand/mar.... This is positive since many missed recusals came from waivers fixthecourt.com/2025/07/rece....

Federal public defenders are launching a centralized effort to coordinate Supreme Court litigation in order to sharpen the defense bar’s performance before the justices.

A positive development, but until PACER is free for all users, we + @free.law will continue to lead the charge to make it so.

We have two goals for PACER: 1) Make it secure and modern 2) Make it free After getting repeatedly hacked, the courts are finally modernizing PACER. The best time for security is before you get hacked, but we'll take the win. The new system must be free. www.uscourts.gov/data-news/ju...

Want to see something insane? youtube.com/shorts/SUts9...

NEW: Liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh clashed during a rare joint public appearance over the Supreme Court's frequent rulings for Trump via the shadow docket: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

The Justice Department Is Lowering Its Ethical Guardrails https://abovethelaw.com/2026/03/the-justice-department-is-lowering-its-ethical-guardrails/

This policy needs to be revisited. A couple thousand of these cases around the country in last few months. Many filings inaccessible. Even causes problems for US Attorney offices because THEY can't see the filings remotely unless the specific attorney is assigned to that case

At a moment when tens of millions of Americans are deeply unhappy with the Supreme Court, it is hard to envision a clear path to reform. Yet history shows that such a path has been taken many times before. bit.ly/4atgYkQ

I feel like we typically see these sorts of completely outraged opinions from federal judges a couple times a year across the whole country, maybe a little more often in last few years. Now, in cases stemming from Trump's immigration crackdown, judges are ringing the alarm bell several times a week.

"Journalists scrutinize power. It’s job no. 1 & we can’t have a Supreme Court-sized exception [to that]," per @jodikantor.bsky.social. 💯 We're pleased to see newsrooms investing more resources into coverage of the most powerful, least accountable part of our gov't www.politico.com/news/magazin....

Justice Barrett didn't have a sudden revelation about the existence of ayahuasca during #SCOTUS args. y'day. She looked at Justice Kagan after her "is that real" question & Kagan nodded. Unless you were there, you'd never know bc #SCOTUS still bans cameras 👎 www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen....

Did you know that if you don't talk about the climate crisis, the problem magically goes away? Seems to be the thinking in the federal judiciary these days.

Trump administration realizes it cannot defend the indefensible extortion orders against law firms. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

A Republican-appointed state supreme court justice is criticizing President Trump's "lapdog" comment following the U.S. Supreme Court's tariffs ruling. "That’s not helpful to anybody," N.D. Supreme Court Justice Daniel Crothers said.

And it's about to get worse — start following 25-756 at SCOTUS

Coming to the shadow docket in late spring!

From @ms.now: "Fix the Court’s efforts are appreciated here. They also shouldn’t be needed. [...] Gabe Roth, acknowledged as much in announcing the audio [FTC] obtained & posted. 'This is not hard: the Court should livestream the audio of opinion announcements [...] as it does for oral arguments.'"

Exciting news! We've exclusively obtained & posted the missing Supreme Court opinion announcement audio from last term fixthecourt.com/2026/02/the-... #SCOTUS

Only four members of SCOTUS are in attendance tonight: Roberts, Barrett, Kav, and Kagan.

We filed a misconduct complaint today against E.D. Mich. Judge Ludington fixthecourt.com/wp-content/u.... It's one thing to get arrested for drunk driving, removeable on its own, & another to keep doing your job — a position of public trust — for almost 5 months as if nothing happened.

Big announcement coming tomorrow from Fix the Court!

Former Massachusetts federal Judge Mark Wolf, who said he stepped down from the bench last year to freely raise concerns about President Donald Trump, created a stressful culture for his chambers staff, according to seven former employees.

Per J. Kavanaugh's dissent, the U.S. "may be required to refund billions of dollars to importers who paid the tariffs, even though some importers may have already passed on costs to consumers or others." Some? May? Importers passed on 96% (!) of tariffs' costs www.investopedia.com/americans-ha...

BREAKING: SUPREME COURT STRIKES DOWN TRUMP TARIFFS "The President asserts the extraordinary power to unilaterally impose tariffs of unlimited amount, duration, and scope...he must identify clear congressional authorization to exercise it." www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...

Cannot unsee the Chief Justice in a BabyBjörn

"If I were in my 30s or 40s with young children at home & thinking about going on the federal bench, 1 of the factors [to consider] is we may be exposing ourselves to possible violence" —W.D. Wash. Judge Coughenour @melissaquinn97.bsky.social @jakemrosen.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/news/threats...

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.