John Fritze

Trump gets another shot to try to move the criminal hush money case into federal court. Second Circuit appeals court judges send the case back to the district judge to reconsider. With @jfritze cnn.com/2025/11/06/pol…

Justice Amy Coney Barrett defends overturning Roe v. Wade and reveals Supreme Court dynamics in new book: cnn.com/2025/09/02/pol…

There's a lot of "Humphrey’s Executor" in this Lisa Cook complaint. Here's some background on that case: cnn.com/2025/08/17/pol…

Fed Governor Lisa Cook files lawsuit over President Trump's attempt to fire her. cnn.it/3HYqRvn

NEW: Louisiana has filed its supplemental SCOTUS brief in the Louisiana congressional redistricting case on the constitutionality of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/2…

@mamajello @jmhansler @Phil_Mattingly It’s essentially shorthand for: 1) We don’t know which justice wrote it and 2) We don’t get a vote count. It’s relatively common on the court’s emergency docket. See this: supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf… And compare to this: supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf…

@jmhansler @Phil_Mattingly @jfritze What does that mean exactly, “an unsigned order”?

The Supreme Court, in an unsigned order, backed President Donald Trump’s effort to carry out mass firings and reorganizations at federal agencies, @jfritze reports cnn.com/2025/07/08/pol…

"Things were a little crunched toward the end." - Chief Justice John Roberts.

Justices Sotomayor and Kagan lead pack with 5 majority opinions each. CJ Roberts and Kavanaugh have only 3. The rest have 4 a piece. (And there have been 7 Per curiam opinions.)

Trump has privately complained that his Supreme Court nominees -- Barrett, particular -- have not sufficiently stood behind his agenda, according to multiple sources. cnn.com/2025/06/03/pol…

Latest briefing at SCOTUS (in the probationary firings case) signed by newly confirmed solicitor general D. John Sauer.

Trump can’t end birthright citizenship, appeals court says, setting up Supreme Court showdown cnn.com/2025/02/19/pol…

JUST IN: First significant win for Trump Admin as federal judge in Boston says federal worker buyout program can proceed, for now. He said unions, which brought lawsuit on behalf of members, do not have standing to bring case.

Indiana was right all along...

SCOTUS hearing the biggest case of the term on whether a TN law that prohibits transgender care for minors is constitutional. #cm48vkp9r00133b6n6d0z85va" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">cnn.com/politics/live-…

New: Under oath in a court deposition earlier this year, Michael Flynn for the first time on record acknowledged there was no evidence to support a key part of some election fraud claims. We have the video. w/ @Tierney_Megan & @emsteck cnn.com/2024/10/24/pol…

Justice Jackson says she might have left legal career had she known the challenges of caring for daughter cnn.com/2024/09/13/pol…

Tonight at 10pm: a special interview with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

“As you know, I am not in favor of overruling Roe v. Wade,” Justice Stevens wrote in '89, “but if the deed is to be done I would rather see the Court give the case a decent burial instead of tossing it out the window of a fast-moving caboose.” Fascinating story from @JoanBiskupic. cnn.com/2024/09/13/pol…

A remarkable fact — 19 years ago this week, Chief Justice William Rehnquist passed away. He had served as Chief for 19 years. His successor (and former law clerk) Chief Justice John Roberts has now been Chief as long as his old boss was. (WHR is 2nd and JGR is 4th from left.)

@johnainsworth2 Thank you.

@jfritze Great article on Apple News Today about SCOTUS. I think there’s a typo that I wanted to bring to your attention: The Arizona ruling “iscreating additional uncertainty…” I think you missed the space between “is” & “creating”. Hope this helps!