We've received some documents via FOIA that may be of interest to folks who follow SCOTUS fixthecourt.com/2026/04/docu...

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was taken to a hospital after becoming ill last month at a Federalist Society dinner in Philadelphia, according to people with knowledge of the March 20 incident. https://cnn.it/4vaNP6k

Two weeks after a new #SCOTUS rule went into effect requiring that ticker symbols are included in filings, are the parties following it?

Turns out, they are for the most part fixthecourt.com/2026/03/are-....

Conversation and Book Event with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch | The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation provides education, scholarships, exhibits, events, and media related to the lives of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

New SCOTUS book tour about to drop: reaganfoundation.org/events/conve... (May 5 in Calif. w/ livestream).

See all past & upcoming SCOTUS events from 2026 here: fixthecourt.com/2026/03/2026....

WE KNOW

Yes + what's also in the bill the Senate passed last night is $30MM for #SCOTUS security, which is critical since it'll free up the USMS deputies currently doing the residential work to now focus more on protecting lower court judges

🚨🚨Utah is now the 49th state requiring judges to file annual financial disclosures after Gov. Cox signs H.B. 540 le.utah.gov/Session/2026... (Idaho: ❌).

Bill also creates single access point for court records & reduces costs to view & download (50 free of each/mo). Not quite "free PACER" but close!

Bookmarking this sentence from an SG brief (!) filed yesterday for no reason at all:

"Overwhelming evidence showed that [a gov't official] expressly solicited financial contributions in exchange for performing or agreeing to perform specific official action." www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

OT25 Recusals Compiled by Fix the Court

Just in: Gorsuch has recused in a case due to ties to billionaire Phil Anschutz.

This one concerns seaside landowner's attempt to dredge adjacent waters, w the landowner here, Sea Island, being owned by an Anschutz co. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

See, not so hard [staring in other justices...]

Cameras in the Supreme Court: www.supremecourt.gov/oconnorbarme...

The Supreme Court today is holding an invitation-only bar memorial for the late Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

The memorial will be livestreamed—which is a nice reminder that the court is perfectly capable of livestreaming oral arguments if it really wanted to.

www.supremecourt.gov/oconnorbarme...

"I'm willing to take a not guilty. I'm willing to take a no true bill."

What she means is she's willing to bring legally deficient cases that harass innocent defendants, waste her line prosecutors' time, and makes her office look like jerkoffs in front of judges and juries.

Judges and retired judges are shouting from the rooftops about these attacks & threats. That is absolutely not something federal judges are accustomed to doing. I interpret their speaking up themselves as a sign of powerful frustration among judges with the Chief Justice’s handling of this crisis.

Chief Justice Roberts just now: "Personally directed hostility [at judges] is dangerous, & it's got to stop."

Wonder who Roberts is talking about? youtube.com/watch?v=j8vU...

You should add SCOTUS — only 9 of 'em!

NEW: We go circuit by circuit across the federal judiciary & explain how to file complaints against judges fixthecourt.com/2026/03/fix-...

Who's going to be the first to submit a filing that reflects the #SCOTUS rule change on publicly traded companies?

Guess we'll find out later in the week...

Ahead of Monday rule change where briefs filed by public cos. + subsidiaries must include ticker symbol, #SCOTUS has new wavier form that includes line for ticker symbols supremecourt.gov/casehand/mar....

This is positive since many missed recusals came from waivers fixthecourt.com/2025/07/rece....

Federal Public Defenders Launch Hub for Supreme Court Cases (1) Federal public defenders are launching a centralized effort to coordinate Supreme Court litigation in order to sharpen the defense bar’s performance before the justices.

Federal public defenders are launching a centralized effort to coordinate Supreme Court litigation in order to sharpen the defense bar’s performance before the justices.

A positive development, but until PACER is free for all users, we + @free.law will continue to lead the charge to make it so.

As government and private sector IT systems come under increasing attack by sophisticated cyber criminals, two federal judges outlined a plan before the Judicial Conference of the United States to accelerate the Judiciary’s development of a new more secure case management system. Addressing the Conference on Tuesday, Appellate Judge Michael Y. Scudder, who chairs the Conference’s Information Technology Committee, and District Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove, chairman of the Committee on Court Administration and Case Management, said that development of a replacement for the federal Judiciary’s aging system is on a fast track, with initial components being tested this year at six courts around the country. “This project is a top priority for our branch,” Judge Van Tatenhove said. “It is one we are accelerating to meet our security and operational needs. We must do this given the acute and persistent risk faced by our current CM/ECF system. The new system will replace the Case Management/Electronic Case Files system (CM/ECF) that the courts have relied on for nearly three decades to manage heavy caseloads and carry out court operations. It is used by litigants to file cases and related documents, and it provides the public with access to over 1 billion court records. It is anticipated that the district courts will be the first to start implementing aspects of the new case management system within the next year, followed by appellate and bankruptcy courts. The timeline for completion is two to three years sooner than originally expected.

We have two goals for PACER:

1) Make it secure and modern
2) Make it free

After getting repeatedly hacked, the courts are finally modernizing PACER. The best time for security is before you get hacked, but we'll take the win.

The new system must be free. www.uscourts.gov/data-news/ju...

How many civil cases have been pending in the judiciary for more than 3 years? The answer is 🤯 YouTube video by Fix the Court

Want to see something insane? youtube.com/shorts/SUts9...

Supreme Court justices Jackson and Kavanaugh clash over handling of Trump cases Liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh disagreed about frequent rulings in favor of the Trump administration during a rare joint appearance.

NEW: Liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh clashed during a rare joint public appearance over the Supreme Court's frequent rulings for Trump via the shadow docket:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

The Justice Department Is Lowering Its Ethical Guardrails For generations, strict limits on the DOJ's political activity helped sustain trust. Weakening those limits threatens to erode it.

The Justice Department Is Lowering Its Ethical Guardrails
abovethelaw.com/2026/03/the-justice-depa...

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....