Jake Truscott, PhD

After what felt like ages, very(!) excited to finally see this work in print with @joeornstein.bsky.social & @enblasingame.bsky.social

Link: bit.ly/409THxY

Average word counts by Supreme Court opinion type, 2016 to 2023 terms.

Adam and I usually only track word counts since occasional incorporation of appendices and images can distort page counts. Below is avg words by opinion type (footnotes omitted) between 16' and 23’ term. Only dissents have shown much in way of 'significant'(?) growth. Concurrences to a lesser extent

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scotustext(R) version 2 is updated and live — Improved functions for retrieving, cleaning, and parsing documents from the Supreme Court’s docket, oral arguments, and decisions. Enjoy!

Install from remotes::install_github(“JakeTruscott/scotustext”)

Link: jaketruscott.github.io/scotustext/

My students rock

Scaramucci walked so Gaetz could run

109. Things Fall Apart Some reflections on my disheartening exchange with Judge Jones at last Thursday's Federalist Society convention—and its ominous implications for the future of legal debate

Must read by @stevevladeck.bsky.social about his encounters at Fed Soc. www.stevevladeck.com/p/109-things...

That sound you hear is a printer and a fresh manila folder being retrieved.

“Yankee Transplant”?

Since when did the trolls gentrify carpetbagger?

The

I’m teaching a specialized (upper division & honors) course on the Supreme Court in the Spring.

Goal is to facilitate pragmatic discussions re: the Court using empirical social science, APD, and case law.

Any suggestions for particular topics would be greatly appreciated!

Somewhere in the multiverse the folder is just @stevevladeck.bsky.social tweets about the Mets

The assumption that any honest discussion regarding questionable behaviors in the federal judiciary is invariably from a position of bad faith (and to stoke a legitimacy crisis) just belabors the point…

And attacking the observer’s character directly is pathetic.

I mean.

You actually get to wake up from a nightmare.

This is the bad place, Steve.

I had a chance to meet Ted when I worked in DC - Genuinely one of the nicest people I’d ever met.

We live in such deeply unserious times

I see we’re back

Save and reuse that boiled water from the Ramen for the shower and you're doing grad school efficiently.

I just switched to Kroger-brand everything

I just had a full 2 minute debate with myself about whether that picture is a portrait of Hugh Jackman or The Boss

For any folks working with SCOTUS Oral Arguments -- I've compiled transcripts of arguments between 1955 and 2023 (Up to Today) into .rdata

Feel free to use!

Adam Feldman and I are providing SCOTUS stats for the 2023 Term (in lieu of SCOTUSBlog providing StatPacks) - Particularly re: Arguments and Decisions, as well as other noteworthy stats and analysis.

For Raw Data: jaketruscott.github.io/scotuswatch/
For Breakdowns & Analysis: empiricalscotus.com

A Quarter of US Federal Courts Have Never Had a Non-White Judge Jack Ruffin’s mother never wanted him to be a lawyer. As a Black man in South Georgia, he once told an interviewer, it would only put a bigger target on his back.

Link to Article:

Bloomberg piece today raises interesting notions re: the composition of the lower Art. III Courts. Some additional figs below from the FJC's Art. III Directory -- Specif. focusing on appointment history to the District Courts

(Note: Ideology Assigned Using JCS -- Missing JCS = President NOMINATE)

Because self-destructive business owners blaming their failures on the Jews has never caused any significant repercussions before.

Oy vey…

In summary: Oy Vey…

He's had (or shared) about 140 (138, technically...) - A considerable portion of which have recently come from Bill Pryor in the 11th and Greg Katsas in the DC Circuit (who was part of his first clerk class in 1991).

“Bootstrapping” is 100% a make believe word