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Fix the Court @fixthecourt.com · 3d

Please sign up for our email list at fixthecourt.com/sign-up.

It's 1-2 per month, tops, including 1 going out later this morning!

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Fix the Court @fixthecourt.com · 4d

S.D. Ohio Judge Watson (taking sr. status 11/1) refused to recuse in the Strauss investigation despite teaching at OSU & his wife making $ from licensing OSU merch.

Meanwhile in WV, a judge recused in a WVU case bc he's a fan of its bball team 🤯 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... @free.law.

Order of Recusal – #7 in State of Ohio v. National Collegiate Athletic Association (N.D.W. Va., 1:23-cv-00100) – CourtListener.com

ORDER OF RECUSAL. Chief District Judge Thomas S Kleeh recused. Case reassigned to District Judge John Preston Bailey for all further proceedings. Signed by Chief District Judge Thomas S Kleeh on 12/08...

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Fix the Court @fixthecourt.com · 4d

Not a surprising move given the shutdown, but this week the judiciary stopped adding judges' financial disclosure reports & stock transaction reports to its online database pub.jefs.uscourts.gov

United States Courts | Financial Disclosures

This site contains financial disclosure reports for judicial officers, including bankruptcy, magistrate, and special trial judges.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 5d

The American people do not have confidence in the Roberts Court.

Only 21% say they have "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in the Court; 79% say they have "very little" or only "some" confidence. (Economist/YouGov, n=1623)

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Fix the Court @fixthecourt.com · 6d

The government is shutdown but the justices' brisque speaking calendar is not.

We've added to our list fixthecourt.com/2025/10/scot...:
— Thomas at Stanford, Alito in the U.K. & Barrett at the Folger Library last week
— Kennedy tonight in Sacramento
— Jackson at Social Studies convention in Dec.

The Justices’ 2025 Events, Appearances and Interviews, With Links to Videos When Recorded | Fix the Court

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Fix the Court @fixthecourt.com · 8d

Posting this here since, sadly, it may be taken down at some point (diversity is a strength in LEAs; not a weakness!)

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Fix the Court @fixthecourt.com · 9d

Crazy this was 4 years ago. They should've listened to us + @pogo.org then! www.pogo.org/policy-lette...

POGO and Fix the Court Urge Senate Judiciary Committee to Consider…

POGO is a nonpartisan independent watchdog that investigates and exposes waste, corruption, abuse of power, and when the government fails to serve the public or silences those who report wrongdoing.

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Fix the Court @fixthecourt.com · 9d

In a C-SPAN interview scheduled to air on Sunday, Justice Barrett throws cold water on the idea that justices' records would get released to the public before they die fixthecourt.com/2025/10/just....

Clip is here www.youtube.com/watch?v=unVE....

Justice Barrett Throws Cold Water on PRA-Like Legislation for SCOTUS | Fix the Court

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Fix the Court @fixthecourt.com · 9d

To be fair, SCOTUS's OLC messed this up over the summer storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Fix the Court @fixthecourt.com · 9d

It can't be that the 8th Amendment permits death by nitrogen hypoxia, esp. with other methods of capital punishment available.

Don't just take our word for it — read Justice Sotomayor's dissent from yesterday (& in the end, it took Anthony Boyd 20 min. to die) www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p....

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Fix the Court @fixthecourt.com · 10d

NEW POLL: "Most Americans (75%) agree there should be term limits for Supreme Court justices, while less than 1/4 disagree (22%).

"Most Democrats (85%), independents (76%) & Republicans (67%) say there should be #SCOTUS term limits," prri.org/research/tru..., h/t @scotusblog.com.

Trump’s Unprecedented Actions Deepen Asymmetric Divides

The 16th annual PRRI American Values Survey examines Americans’ opinions on how democracy is working, what it means to be “truly American,” concerns about the economy, and belief in the American Dream...

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Fix the Court @fixthecourt.com · 11d

We're on the case — the case of the missing opinion announcement audio: fixthecourt.com/2025/10/wher....

Where’s Last Term’s Opinion Announcement Audio? | Fix the Court

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Fix the Court @fixthecourt.com · 12d

Want to save SCOTUS 200K/yr, which could go toward paying the justices during the shutdown?

Take away Kennedy's & Breyer's clerks & office space.

AMK isn't doing any judging — just writing pablum.

SGB's done a total of 1 CA1 sitting + has an office in Cambridge he can work at.

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Fix the Court @fixthecourt.com · 13d

Looks like some folks still have the affliction of writing, "A federal judge did X," without including the name of the case or a link to its docket on @free.law's Courtlistener.

Do better, please!

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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 18d

Now updated: The 'Presumption of Regularity' study.

1. Noncompliance with judicial orders: 20 cases
2. Courts’ distrust of DOJ information: 43+ cases
3. Courts’ findings of “arbitrary and capricious” conduct: 58 cases

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The “Presumption of Regularity” in Trump Administration Litigation

Comprehensive study of court cases involving Trump administration and the basis for courts no longer giving a "presumption of regularity."

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 17d

Hear me out: we need to create space for the conservatives on the Supreme Court to realize that Trump v. US was a huge mistake and to take steps to rein it in

Creating this permission structure would have to be a serious enterprise among legal elites for it to work

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Exclusive | Trump Team Plans IRS Overhaul to Enable Pursuit of Left-Leaning Groups

The effort would install a Trump ally at the IRS’s criminal unit who has drawn up a list of investigative targets.

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Fix the Court @fixthecourt.com · 19d

FTC, in an organizational first, urges cert. grant ahead of key Friday conference at #SCOTUS.

The facts are INSANE, with cops so corrupt that David Simon made a show about it, but hopefully the justices take it up & fix this issue.

More here: fixthecourt.com/2025/10/fix-....

Fix the Court Urges SCOTUS to Grant Cert. in Cop Corruption Case | Fix the Court

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Fix the Court @fixthecourt.com · 20d

Even when you’re on the Supreme Court, it’s super easy to just not go on Fox News.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21d

"Forty-two judges went so far as to say that the Supreme Court’s emergency orders had caused 'some' or 'major' harm to the public’s perception of the judiciary[,] [including] nearly half of the Republican-nominated judges."

gift link 👉 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Fix the Court @fixthecourt.com · 27d

Our message at the start of a new Supreme Court term: fixthecourt.com/2025/10/ftcs....

FTC’s Message for OT25: The Hostile Rhetoric Against Judges and Justices Must End | Fix the Court

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Fix the Court @fixthecourt.com · 27d

OT25 just started & we've already had some recusals docs.google.com/spreadsheets...:
— All justices but Jackson have recused
— Kagan is only one to explain hers
— Alito leads with 4 (of 11 total), all due to his/Martha Ann's stocks
— 5 due to prior judge/SG work
— 2 due to a justice being sued

OT25 Recusals Compiled by Fix the Court

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Fix the Court @fixthecourt.com · 27d

She's neven explained her recusals. Only Kagan and Jackson do. Once or twice, all three liberals recused, & an explanation was included in the order, but it wasn't Sotomayor who typed it out

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Fix the Court @fixthecourt.com · Oct 3

The "Simon Standard" and the Non-Recusals of Justice Thomas fixthecourt.com/2025/10/the-...

The “Simon Standard” and the Non-Recusals of Justice Thomas | Fix the Court

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