Are Courts Contributing to Democratic Backsliding? US courts have historically been slow to protect guardrails. Election law cases may now have them abetting backsliding. New #ScienceOfPolitics podcast/transcript with Thomas Keck & Albert Rivero. www.niskanencenter.org/are-the-cour...

IN ROD WE TRUST

16-3 in the playoffs…a dominant run to the Stanley Cup for Carolina

The Storm Surge returns — group hug-themed

Re-upping this with a link to the updated CSI data! Please use (and cite the paper) with abandon! matthewtcota.com/files/CSI_20...

New work with Chris Krewson and Miles Armaly! We show that (1) nominee support (via shared presidential partisanship) has significant downstream effects on SCOTUS approval, and (2) it is enduring, lasting long after the confirmation process journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

In a world of AI platitudes, I’m grateful my running watch is here telling me I’m terrible and need to do better. Life’s about balance.

Intent to blow?!!!

Biggest boos for Carter Hart when Vegas’ starting lineup is announced

It’s been a long time coming, but I am proud to announce that In the Shadows of the Emergency Docket: What Emergency Applications Teach Us About Supreme Court Procedure, Precedent, and Public Opinion is forthcoming from the University of Virginia Press!

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