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This policy needs to be revisited. A couple thousand of these cases around the country in last few months. Many filings inaccessible.
Even causes problems for US Attorney offices because THEY can't see the filings remotely unless the specific attorney is assigned to that case

The Long History of Supreme Court Reform Americans have tinkered with the high court since the founding.

At a moment when tens of millions of Americans are deeply unhappy with the Supreme Court, it is hard to envision a clear path to reform. Yet history shows that such a path has been taken many times before. bit.ly/4atgYkQ

I feel like we typically see these sorts of completely outraged opinions from federal judges a couple times a year across the whole country, maybe a little more often in last few years. Now, in cases stemming from Trump's immigration crackdown, judges are ringing the alarm bell several times a week.

What about for the justices of the Supreme Court?

"Journalists scrutinize power. It’s job no. 1 & we can’t have a Supreme Court-sized exception [to that]," per @jodikantor.bsky.social. 💯

We're pleased to see newsrooms investing more resources into coverage of the most powerful, least accountable part of our gov't www.politico.com/news/magazin....

SCOTUStoday for Tuesday, March 3 As we’ve noted before, we read a lot of legal news in the process of preparing this newsletter. Here’s a headline we saw recently that we won’t soon forget: References […]

Too funny — @scotusblog.com wrote about this exchange in its daily newsletter www.scotusblog.com/2026/03/scot....

Justice Barrett didn't have a sudden revelation about the existence of ayahuasca during #SCOTUS args. y'day.

She looked at Justice Kagan after her "is that real" question & Kagan nodded.

Unless you were there, you'd never know bc #SCOTUS still bans cameras 👎 www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen....

Did you know that if you don't talk about the climate crisis, the problem magically goes away? Seems to be the thinking in the federal judiciary these days.

Exclusive | Trump Administration to Drop Defense of Law Firm Sanctions The Justice Department is expected to drop its appeals of four trial-court rulings that struck down the president’s actions against Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, Perkins Coie, and Susman Godfrey.

Trump administration realizes it cannot defend the indefensible extortion orders against law firms.
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Retiring justice: Keep courts impartial, independent, not ‘lap dogs’ North Dakota Supreme Court Justice Daniel Crothers urged his colleagues to keep the judicial branch impartial as he closes out his 20-year career on the court this week.“My only words for anyone follo...

A Republican-appointed state supreme court justice is criticizing President Trump's "lapdog" comment following the U.S. Supreme Court's tariffs ruling.

"That’s not helpful to anybody," N.D. Supreme Court Justice Daniel Crothers said.

And it's about to get worse — start following 25-756 at SCOTUS

Coming to the shadow docket in late spring!

The Supreme Court keeps engaging in this indefensible, nontransparent practice The latest chapter in the court’s refusal to stream and publish audio of its opinion announcements highlights the absurdity of the justices’ approach.

From @ms.now: "Fix the Court’s efforts are appreciated here. They also shouldn’t be needed. [...] Gabe Roth, acknowledged as much in announcing the audio [FTC] obtained & posted. 'This is not hard: the Court should livestream the audio of opinion announcements [...] as it does for oral arguments.'"

The pileup of blatantly unlawful conduct by the government in this case is astonishing, as is the fact that the Supreme Court allowed the govt to go forward with this program in a shadow docket ruling

Short version is we emailed/called SCOTUS & the Archives monthly from October to January but got no response on the files' whereabout until a call with a SCOTUS PIO in January confirmed they had been sent to NARA. Then it took another month to find the right contact at NARA who was willing to help.

Exciting news! We've exclusively obtained & posted the missing Supreme Court opinion announcement audio from last term fixthecourt.com/2026/02/the-... #SCOTUS

Only four members of SCOTUS are in attendance tonight: Roberts, Barrett, Kav, and Kagan.

We filed a misconduct complaint today against E.D. Mich. Judge Ludington fixthecourt.com/wp-content/u....

It's one thing to get arrested for drunk driving, removeable on its own, & another to keep doing your job — a position of public trust — for almost 5 months as if nothing happened.

Big announcement coming tomorrow from Fix the Court!

Ex-Judge Wolf’s Staff Describe Walking on Eggshells in Chambers Former Massachusetts federal Judge Mark Wolf, who said he stepped down from the bench last year to freely raise concerns about President Donald Trump, created a stressful culture for his chambers staff, according to seven former employees.

Former Massachusetts federal Judge Mark Wolf, who said he stepped down from the bench last year to freely raise concerns about President Donald Trump, created a stressful culture for his chambers staff, according to seven former employees.

Americans Have Paid For 96% of Tariff Costs, Study Finds An analysis found that Americans are paying nearly all the cost of President Donald Trump's import taxes, contradicting claims that foreigners are footing the bill.

Per J. Kavanaugh's dissent, the U.S. "may be required to refund billions of dollars to importers who paid the tariffs, even though some importers may have already passed on costs to consumers or others."

Some? May? Importers passed on 96% (!) of tariffs' costs www.investopedia.com/americans-ha...

BREAKING: SUPREME COURT STRIKES DOWN TRUMP TARIFFS
"The President asserts the extraordinary power to unilaterally impose tariffs of unlimited amount, duration, and
scope...he must identify clear congressional authorization to exercise it." www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...

Cannot unsee the Chief Justice in a BabyBjörn

Inside the surge of threats against public officials fueling a rise in prosecutions: "It's too much" A CBS News analysis found 126 cases that were brought by federal prosecutors last year arising out of threats to public officials.

"If I were in my 30s or 40s with young children at home & thinking about going on the federal bench, 1 of the factors [to consider] is we may be exposing ourselves to possible violence" —W.D. Wash. Judge Coughenour
@melissaquinn97.bsky.social @jakemrosen.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/news/threats...

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

Motion to Intervene – #120 in Abrego Garcia v. Noem (D. Maryland, 8:25-cv-00951) – CourtListener.com MOTION to Intervene by Fix the Court (Attachments: # 1 Memorandum in Support, # 2 Declaration of G. Roth, # 3 Text of Proposed Order)(Adelman, Andrew) (Entered: 05/09/2025)

Today's Xinis order is here, fixthecourt.com/wp-content/u..., & our motion to intervene, filed by
@publicjustice.bsky.social on our behalf last May, is here, storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us.... (2/2)

Judge Xinis DENIES our motion to require livestreams of Abrego Garcia proceedings, saying a press/overflow room is enough & states, WITHOUT ANY EVIDENCE to back it up, that there are "security risks associated with the kind of unfettered 'livestream' that Fix the Court requests." (1/2)

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OT24 Recusals Compiled by Fix the Court

Each term, we track all the SCOTUS recusals & all the reasons for them, including stock ownership —

OT25: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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OT23: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Etc...

NEW: DOJ told a judge in New Jersey that it had violated court orders about 54 times between Dec. 5 and this week — the latest accounting of a phenomenon that used to be rare and is now rampant. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...