A smart piece and an important perspective for scholars of judicial legitimacy who--myself included--have tended to approach diffuse support for the Supreme Court as normatively desirable.

Will have the pleasure of hooding Dr. Matthew Fryman tomorrow. Matt won USC's Outstanding Dissertation Award. His other committee members were @elizabethcconnors.bsky.social @jessicaann87.bsky.social & Major General Robin B. Stilwell, Adjutant General of the SC National Guard. Congrats, Matt!

I did some quick analysis and oral arguments under the new round robin format were on average twenty minutes longer than the prior format.

One, if you're not reading @tdunc17.bsky.social's stuff on the shadow docket, you should be. Two, she makes a really elegant point here about trying to reverse engineer votes on these cases that scholars need to take seriously.

We treat emergency docket orders as data. But what if the public record doesn't reflect how the justices actually voted or why? My latest at @scotusblog.com www.scotusblog.com/2026/04/what...

This is the most curmudgeonly thing I have ever read, @washingtonpost.com, and that is truly saying something. Maybe, just maybe, it's okay to let kids be kids for a day and enjoy life instead of telling them to work hard for a machine that will never love them back. wapo.st/4sfTJQK

Relevantly, @elizabethlane.bsky.social and I have a JOP coming out on this very topic, where we examine 34 years of citation data to address attorney targeting of justices. TLDR: yes, they do it and yes, it works. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Excellent visitation day here at @uga-spia.bsky.social!

A moment they'll all never forget 👏 /search?f=tweets&q=%23MilanoCortina2026 /search?f=tweets&q=%23WinterOlympics

Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

I screamed so loud when I realized they won, I am not okay but I am also amazing because USA WON GOLD.

dawg🥹

put it in the Louvre

HOLY SHIT

Holy shit what a move by Keller

USA! USA! USA!!!!!!!! ...THAT GOAL THOUGH. THAT GAME WINNING GOAL THOUGH.

Not now Elliotte, we’re having a meltdown.

If you are interested in the U.S. Supreme Court, but have never seen the justices in action, onthedocket.org provides a step in the right direction. We combine authentic audio with AI-generated video to show you the justices announcing opinions in some of the highest profile cases they decide!

It is always amazing to chat with @ninatotenberg.bsky.social. My group (Jerry Goldman, @spoolerfm.bsky.social, and Francesco d'Alcontres) are thrilled to open up SCOTUS just a bit more to a world wide audience.

cc: @rachaelhouston.bsky.social @elizabethlane.bsky.social

Coming at you in First View: a look at the changing SCOTUS media environment by Matt Cota (MSU), @rachaelhouston.bsky.social, @elizabethlane.bsky.social, and myself! 🧵👇🏼 with more details! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We see you with that SCOTUS pack on the interim/shadow docket, @tdunc17.bsky.social!

Love me our lil' writing groups, they provide the best feedback in the discipline :)

Spring Law and Courts Women's Writing Groups are a go! Link to sign up is below, due date for signing up is 1/30. Come join us! Good work across the law and courts subfield gets done here! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Three 8 AM MPSA panels. Whatever gods I pissed off, I'm really sorry...but you couldn't have found a better way to tell me I'm cosmically cursed?!

Friendly reminder the deadline for applications to be the next editor of JLC is coming! (It's 2/1) I'll be at SPSA if you want to chat about it!

These folks stand on their own but can’t help but note they are all MSU PhDs. So proud.

An ecclesiastical court: Christian nationalism and perceptions of the US Supreme Court by Miles T. Armaly, Jonathan M. King, Elizabeth A. Lane, and Jessica A. Schoenherr is now available in Early View. @jonathanmking.bsky.social @elizabethlane.bsky.social @jessicaann87.bsky.social t.co/lE9STMjDNk

Penn State published a nice article on my recent book with Amanda Driscoll and Jay Krehbiel about the public's support for the rule of law and why it matters: www.psu.edu/news/liberal...

From October 2025 - Trust in the Judiciary and Partisan Reactions to Judicial Checks: Evidence from Argentina - https://cup.org/42BRe1j "judicial checks expose citizens to information that is primarily instrumental" - Martín Gandur #OpenAccess

Kinda cool that we originally submitted this from three different institutions and now we’re all at UGA ❤️

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 In "'You Reached Out to Me to Help'", @jonathanmking.bsky.social, @jessicaann87.bsky.social & @kstauffer.bsky.social use a survey experiment to test how views on courts and anti-woman outcomes are shaped by attorney gender. 🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟 buff.ly/dibwmO3

New today at Science Advances from @kshoub.bsky.social and me. We revisit the question of whether a local tragedy (mass shooting) influences voter behavior. They do, at least at the local level, with some important caveats and implications for policy. Short thread... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New article out in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social with @jonathanmking.bsky.social and @kstauffer.bsky.social! We look at harassers' decisions to employ female attorneys to fortify their arguments. Fun fact: people do not respond positively to these strategic moves. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

My article "The Partisan Foundations of Attitudes Towards State Supreme Courts," co-authored with Eugenia Artabe and Lucia Lopez, is now available online at Political Research Quarterly. doi.org/10.1177/1065...

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

I’m claiming this win.

Does Janet Reno mean nothing to you, WaPo?!

From Winnipeg, Manitoba, No. 19, JONATHAN TOEWS! 🤩 #NHLFaceOff

Been a busy couple of weeks! Thanks to CESR at USC and the Arlin M. Adams Center at Susquehanna for the invites and letting me talk about the fun project Cody Drolc, Alison Merrill, and I are working on! Added bonus that I actually got to *see* Alison!!!

Run, don’t walk. 100% would not have made it this far without the writing groups!

IT'S WRITING GROUP SEASON!!!! L&C Women Writing Group has everything: erudite commentary, vast experience, bonding. Evidence of success: Pick up the JOP. JLC. PRQ. P&G. SPPQ. Papers that went through our group are everywhere! Deadline is tomorrow (10/3)! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Today in CJ Admin… Student: can they search the trunk? Me: Not without a warrant or probable cause. Please see JayZ’s hit song 99 Problems for helpful rules. My glove compartment is locked, so is the trunk in the back, and I know my rights, so you’re going to need a warrant for that. 🤦🏻‍♀️

It's a little difficult to overstate how important having information like this is, particularly in our weird (and lovely) subfield...thank you for your incredible work here, @abbymatthews.bsky.social, @alyxmark.bsky.social, and Monica! (and it's open access!) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Are you telling me that more women in positions of power leads to more women in positions of support? YES. YES WE ARE.

"This is a case about Katz and dogs" -- opening line of a pending SCOTUS cert. petition about an allegedly unconstitutional search involving a police dog. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

Time for the #JuniorsWhoJudicial to shine!

My article, "Judicial Ambition and the Crafting of Law: How Promotion Potential Shapes Appellate Opinions," is now published in Political Research Quarterly. doi.org/10.1177/1065...

Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people. Using our database, you can search for organizations and people that have paid the justices, reimbursed them for travel, given them gifts and more.