Jonathan Hensley

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The Federal Circuit immediately issues the mandates in the tariffs litigation, rejecting the Trump admin's request for further delay. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Scientists Decry ‘Political Attack’ on Reference Manual for Judges

Scientists Decry ‘Political Attack’ on Reference Manual for Judges www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/c...

NEW POLL on Dem. structural reforms: U.S. adults support 18-yr term limits for Supreme Court justices by a 50-point margin (GOP is +34 in favor), favor statehood for Puerto Rico and limits on pardons by POTUS, and are split on DC statehood, packing the Court:

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/two-thirds...

In November of 2024, two weeks after voters returned President Donald Trump to office, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. summoned employees of the U.S. Supreme Court for an unusual announcement. Facing them in a grand conference room beneath ornate chandeliers, he requested they each sign a nondisclosure agreement promising to keep the court’s inner workings secret.

Jodi Kantor in the NY Times reports that the Chief Justice requested Court employees sign nondisclosure agreements in November 2024 - moving to formal contracts requiring silence/confidentiality after Trump was reelected: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

Today in History: Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States On Dec. 14, 1964, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States, ruled Congress was within its authority to enforce the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against racial discrimination b…

Today in History: Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States

It's the 160th anniversary of the United States' refounding, the ratification of the 13th Amendment.

I had not idea about the Wright architecture there. It also looks like humans have abandoned it to be consumed by said Florida climate.

Really remarkable to see federal judges, even anonymously, criticizing SCOTUS this way. You know things have gotten bad if they’re willing to do this.

Yesterday, in the context of an emergency (there was none) motion with no argument and limited briefing, the Court overturned almost a century of precedent to just about end independent agencies. This is not how real courts behave.
#notacourt.

one of the many infuriating things about this is that if the authors of the amendment wanted it to apply exclusively to the formerly enslaved they had the capacity to do so! they would have written it that way! they didn't!

On the other hand, there is this. Like I said, I’m still not too optimistic here.

I don’t want to get too optimistic about these SCOTUS arguments, but even Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett have sounded pretty annoyed with D. John Sauer at various times in this argument.

David Souter - Lawyers, Guns & Money Former Supreme Court justice David Souter has died. The first Bush administration’s nomination of Souter, who to the shock and horror of Leonard Leo and the Integralist Jurisprudential Experience turned out to be a radical communist aka a moderate Republican of a breed that’s now deader than disco, was a key moment in the ongoing […]

David Souter

David French’s column today says Harvard is “remarkably intolerant,” the speech environment is “abysmal,” and left-wing bias is “overwhelming.”

So I have a question: if they’re so biased against conservatives, how do they keep being a stepping stone for influential conservative lawyers and judges?

Video: Capybaras Make Posh Argentine Neighborhood Their Home Over the past two years, biologists estimate the capybara population has tripled to nearly 1,000 in this gated community in Argentina.

Team Capybara all the way. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...