Jimmy Hoover
Supreme Court Reporter at The National Law Journal. Host of the Supreme Court Brief podcast and newsletter. Tips, greetings: jimmy.hoover@alm.com
- The Supreme Court issued a low-profile decision about medical malpractice suits last month. Some experts think it could portend bad news for media organizations facing federal defamation lawsuits. #SCOTUS
- Appeals from indigent litigants have been falling dramatically at the Supreme Court in recent years. I spoke to some experts about what might behind the “troubling” trend. www.law.com/nationallawj...
- In 1971, the New York Times ran an article on the Supreme Court's "leisurely pace" in getting out decisions because its first one took a whole month and a half... These days it's not uncommon for the first opinion to come until January (three months after start of term.) #SCOTUS
- Why is election denier John Eastman, under suspension and facing disbarment in California, still allowed to file amicus briefs at the Supreme Court? My story from 2024. #SCOTUS www.law.com/nationallawj...
- The Supreme Court has a wait-and-see approach for attorney discipline. Some ethics folks think its too lenient, and arguably inconsistent with the text of the court's Rule 8. From a story I wrote in No. '24. www.law.com/nationallawj...
- Supreme Court lawyers told me they are now using AI in their day-to-day legal practice, from basic legal research to drafting portions of briefs to the justices. "The technology is there," one said. "You can generate drafts of stuff that would have taken hours, in minutes."
- To Supreme Court lawyers: it's okay to admit you're using AI... www.law.com/nationallawj...
- To Supreme Court lawyers: it's okay to admit you're using AI... www.law.com/nationallawj...
- Has E. Jean Carroll spotted a fatal flaw in President Trump's Supreme Court appeal over her sexual assault verdict? This is from her new brief opposing #SCOTUS review of evidentiary issues at trial.
- SCOTUS WATCH: One or more opinions coming this Friday. Could we get the court's word on Trump's tariff policies? Time will tell. #SCOTUS
- Alan Dershowitz is the latest powerful voice to ask the Supreme Court to undo the robust press protections it established in the 1964 case NYT v. Sullivan. Dershowitz wants to revive a lawsuit against CNN stemming from his Trump impeachment defense. www.law.com/nationallawj...
- NEWS: Alan Dershowitz is asking the Supreme Court to overrule New York Times v. Sullivan and revive his defamation suit against CNN. 'Sullivan' has enshrined press protections for 60+ years, but Dershowitz is hoping the court agrees with his attacks on the modern media. www.law.com/nationallawj...
- BREAKING: Supreme Court says Trump cannot deploy National Guard to Chicago to protect ICE operations in major blow to president. #SCOTUS
- Scoop: The ACLU, frequently supportive of gun control, has joined the legal team challenging the federal gun ban for weed users at the Supreme Court. #SCOTUS www.law.com/nationallawj...
- For this week's Supreme Court Brief, I spoke to @ij.org lawyer Marie Miller about how #SCOTUS decisions have made it a "huge long shot" to pursue civil rights lawsuits against ICE agents. Miller's client, a U.S. citizen and veteran, was detained for 3 days by ICE this summer.
- Oklahoma tribes are back at #SCOTUS to fulfill the promise of sovereignty after a 2020 ruling that about half the state is still Indian Country. This time it's about whether tribal members must pay state income taxes. Bringing the case? Former SG Elizabeth Prelogar. www.law.com/nationallawj...
- After a big Supreme Court case in 2022, I was interviewing ppl outside when I ran into Rob Reiner milling about. He was polite and seemed to know a lot about the case, being friends w @nealkatyal.bsky.social. He just had one question before we started: "Are you associated in any way w/ Alex Jones?"
- On today's Supreme Court Brief, former FTC Chair Bill Kovacic explains what the justices got wrong about the agency during Monday's hearing in Trump v. Slaughter. Both liberal and conservative justices debated a "caricature" of the FTC, rather than reality. podcasts.apple.com/pl/podcast/f...
- In a testament to the enduring power of Scaliaisms, I'm adding 'this wolf comes as a wolf' to my running SCOTUS argument clichés list... nominations welcome
- This hearing just wrapped. My read is that it went worse for the GOP than expected. Chief Justice Roberts asked an early question revealing skepticism with their campaign finance challenge. And other than Justices Kavanaugh and Alito, the conservative majority was largely mum throughout the hearing.
- The Supreme Court is hearing whether VP Vance can challenge a campaign finance law, but it's unclear that he can do so having so far disclaimed any 2028 run. Vance's lawyer says the court shouldn't "blind itself" to what is "obvious." #SCOTUS
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- The Supreme Court is hearing whether VP Vance can challenge a campaign finance law, but it's unclear that he can do so having so far disclaimed any 2028 run. Vance's lawyer says the court shouldn't "blind itself" to what is "obvious." #SCOTUS
- No surprises in today’s #SCOTUS hearing on independent agencies. The conservatives seem poised to ditch precedent upholding their constitutionality. Trump‘s SG called that 1935 decision (Humphrey’s Executor) a “decaying husk.” Sotomayor said doing so would “destroy the structure of government.”
- Big day for the federal bureaucracy at #SCOTUS today, where the justices will consider overturning 90 years of precedent protecting the independence of certain gov’t agencies. At issue is whether Trump can fire a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission w/o cause.
- Big day for the federal bureaucracy at #SCOTUS today, where the justices will consider overturning 90 years of precedent protecting the independence of certain gov’t agencies. At issue is whether Trump can fire a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission w/o cause.
- BREAKING: Supreme Court agrees to decide whether Trump's restrictions on birthright citizenship are constitutional. #SCOTUS
- On the latest Supreme Court Brief podcast, I chat with @richardre.bsky.social about the "legal realignment" happening at #SCOTUS and the judiciary. Listen and subscribe: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
- BREAKING: Texas can use new gerrymandered congressional districts in upcoming elections. Supreme Court's conservative majority stays lower court order that blocked the new map as racially-motivated. The liberals dissent. #SCOTUS
- In today’s Supreme Court Brief newsletter, I discuss the exalted status of a ‘Scalia opinion’—compared to those of other justices—at today’s #SCOTUS. www.law.com/supremecourt...
- The Supreme Court's emergency docket cases are typically dealt with in rushed briefing and short orders. So it was notable to me that Justice Jackson raised the court's Perdomo ruling allowing the Trump administration's ICE raids during oral arguments yesterday. #SCOTUS www.law.com/supremecourt...
- Trump says tariff revenue will be used to pay for $2K checks to citizens and pay down national debt. Just last week, his administration assured the Supreme Court that these are "not revenue-raising tariffs." #SCOTUS
- JUST IN: Supreme Court denies Kim Davis' petition to reconsider landmark ruling protecting same-sex marriage. #SCOTUS
- That was quick. Supreme Court wraps up two hearings this morning before 11:30, giving the justices plenty of time to get ready for tomorrow's major showdown over Trump's tariffs. #SCOTUS
- The NRA is back at #SCOTUS after its 9-0 First Amendment victory last year. Now the group is accusing the 2nd Circuit of defying the justices' ruling... If that sounds familiar, the NRA cites Gorsuch's scolding of lower courts for defying emergency docket 'precedent'. www.law.com/nationallawj...
- NEW: Supreme Court asks for additional briefs in pending case over Trump's National Guard deployment to Chicago, holding off, for now, on immediately allowing the president to put 700 troops throughout the city. #SCOTUS
- Thing about calling it the "interim docket" is... it also applies to executions, deportations (to places like South Sudan), expiring aid money, and countless other scenarios that can't be undone. I'm not sold, and will keep using "emergency docket" until a better term comes along. #SCOTUS
- In 2023, two conservative justices banded together to save the Supreme Court's Voting Rights Act precedents. Two years later that coalition is crumbling and the VRA faces another existential crisis. #SCOTUS www.law.com/supremecourt...
- NAACP Legal Defense Fund's Janai Nelson is delivering one of the most poised, clear-throated and confident Supreme Court arguments I've heard in a while as she defends Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Will it matter? #SCOTUS
