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The First Two Weeks: What Supreme Court Oral Arguments Reveal About the Term Ahead
The first oral argument sitting of the Term is under the justices' belts but what does it show about the justices' interactions and what does it mean…
Oct 16
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Adam Feldman
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The Summer Break that Wasn’t
Why was this SCOTUS summer different from all others? The story starts with the Trump Administration and continues through more aggressive work in the…
Oct 13
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Adam Feldman
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Predicting the Outcomes of SCOTUS' October 2025 Case Argument Slate
How will the justices rule? We don't know but the tea leaves provide some strong insights.
Oct 7
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Adam Feldman
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From Legal Scholarship to the Bench: Which Top Scholars Courts Cite (2019–2024)
The article analyzes how legal scholarship has been cited by courts in recent years, outlining the authors, courts, and article which show up the most.
Oct 3
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Adam Feldman
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An Empirical Look at Recent Circuit Splits and the Likelihood of Supreme Court Review
Circuit splits are the clearest indicator of cases ready for Supreme Court review, but the Supreme Court only selects a subset of these on cert. This…
Oct 1
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Adam Feldman
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September 2025
The Supreme Court’s Quiet Power Players (2017-2024)
This piece shows how a small circle of elite Supreme Court advocates—measured by grant rates, opposition success, and amicus patterns—can significantly…
Sep 25
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Adam Feldman
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Policy by Litigation: Where the Executive Order Battles Are Centered
This article examines what TROs and preliminary injunctions tell us about the real-world lifespan of 2025 executive orders across immigration, DEI…
Sep 22
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Adam Feldman
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Clerks, Chambers, and Power: The Networks Behind the Court
This article shows Supreme Court clerkships now function less as prizes than as pipelines, channeling talent through tight networks into powerful firms…
Sep 19
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Adam Feldman
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Rule by Lawsuit: Inside 2025’s Executive-Order Wars
In a year of headline executive orders, the fastest-moving branch wasn’t the presidency—it was the judiciary, which turned bold directives into…
Sep 15
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Adam Feldman
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The Ultimate Guide to Supreme Court Clerk Pipelines
From the law schools that feed to lower court judges to the Supreme Court clerkship feeder judges, this article tracks Supreme Court clerkship data…
Sep 11
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Adam Feldman
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Consensus, Control, Change: Ranking the Modern Chiefs Upon John G. Roberts’ 20th Supreme Court Term
Marking Chief Justice John Roberts’s 20th Term, this article uses Supreme Court Database metrics to compare the five modern Chief Justices on consensus…
Sep 8
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Adam Feldman
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The Supreme Court’s Long Shadow Docket, Part II: The Lay of the Land
Using unique shadow docket data, this article tracks topic areas, repeat advocates, the most frequent relief granted, and more to provide a more…
Sep 4
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Adam Feldman
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