The California voter roll litigation is a useful illustration of “election integrity” claims that would exclude far more ...

On Tuesday morning, the Supreme Court handed down a one-sentence order denying an emergency application, with no noted dissents, in a case with a strange caption, City of Baltimore v. Texas. The ...

Welcome back to “One First,” a newsletter that aims to make the U.S. Supreme Court more accessible to lawyers and non-lawyers alike. I’m grateful to all of you for your continued support, and I hope ...

I’ve been part of a lot of conversations lately, both publicly and privately, in which folks behave as if expanding the Supreme Court is the only Court reform worth pursuing—or that it at least needs ...

Welcome back to “One First,” a newsletter that aims to make the U.S. Supreme Court more accessible to lawyers and non-lawyers alike. I’m grateful to all of you for your continued support, and I hope ...

In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently.1 This is, I ...

Welcome back to “One First,” a newsletter that aims to make the U.S. Supreme Court more accessible to lawyers and non-lawyers alike. I’m grateful to all of you for your continued support, and I hope ...

The Eighth Circuit’s Monday night ruling in the Missouri redistricting case isn’t long for this world, but it’s still quite a mess. Cristian Farias and I sat down to discuss in a Substack Live. On ...

This will be a very brief post, but I thought it might be useful to explain what the Eighth Circuit did this evening in the Missouri redistricting case; why it’s both indefensible and not likely to be ...

Welcome back to “One First,” a newsletter that aims to make the U.S. Supreme Court more accessible to lawyers and non-lawyers alike. I’m grateful to all of you for your continued support, and I hope ...

Close readers of Monday’s newsletter will have seen that I was supposed to appear before the Fourth Circuit yesterday to argue an issue I’ve previously argued in three other federal appeals ...