Good morning from a humid & gray Supreme Court! Will we get a major opinion today, like birthright citizenship? We’ll find out in the next hour or two, though opinion announcements are still not being livestreamed (our Kit Beyer has thoughts scotusblog.com/2025/06/the-su…)…

Not sure "wedge" is right word. Most Ds & most Rs acknowledge more money is needed for judicial security. 1st Q is will A3 get security $ increase in Approps this month? Likely yes. 2nd Q is will A3 get it if budget remains in a CR posture? Unclear.

NEWS from House Appropriations: Markup of the Financial Services & General Gov't bill, which includes judiciary's & #SCOTUS's budget, has been postponed (was 6/23). Chairman Cole will post a new time here appropriations.house.gov/news/press-rel… when it's decided upon.

Ok so this is a big deal indeed. My late brother Ari’s wife appealed to the Supreme Court and won. Unanimously. Now any American citizen affected by Palestinian terror can sue the Palestinian authority in American courts. Pretty unprecedented! Wow. thehill.com/homenews/53606…

Tmrw at 10, House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 House Judiciary Dems will hold a hearing titled "Fiscal Accountability & Oversight of the Fed. Courts" judiciary.house.gov/committee-acti…. What's most pressing: Workplace conduct? Lack of security funding? Too many PIs/too few 65(c) bonds? Free PACER? Lots to discuss!

A federal judge told a House Judiciary subcommittee Tuesday that funding concerns have deferred dozens of judicial security projects. ow.ly/mEM450WfIsi

IRONY ALERT: Per Rep. Darrell Issa, CJ Roberts OPPOSES a "free PACER" bill — "the Chief Justice chews me out every time we talk about it," Issa said today youtube.com/live/OL7LKTCwf… — & yet, it was under Roberts' watch that #SCOTUS started posting all its records online & at no cost.

JUST IN: Never seen this before — the Justice Department is suing ... the entire federal district court bench in Maryland over its standing order requiring an automatic two-day stay in habeas cases. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Good news from South Carolina: per John Monk, summaries of complaints against S.C. judges + any remedial actions taken will for the 1st time be made public, with the judges' name redacted thestate.com/news/local/cri…. (This is how the fed. courts currently handle complaints.)

New Abrego Garcia hearing in D. Md. starting in 40 min. This is the FIRST ONE with a public access line. Call-in no. 877-336-1831; passcode: 8393132. Docket linked to in the tracker docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d… (F25).

NEW numbers from Judge Salas: 408 threats against judges this year youtube.com/live/WAEMXKfLk…. "We're going to break records, people, and not in a good way," she added moments ago. (Is that "serious/investigated threats" & does "year" = fiscal or calendar? Working to clarify.)

Would you look at that: A ME Supreme Court justice is under scrutiny for ethics violations. Acc. to new rules adopted by the Court, the complaint will now be reviewed by a panel of lower court judges mainepublic.org/courts-and-cri…. A similar idea appears in Sheldon Whitehouse's SCERT Act.

🚨NEW EPISODE ALERT: wgnradio.com/wgn-plus/legal… Thanks to all our special guests: Alison LaCroix, Gabe Roth, Jillian Lederman, Sarah Wellard, Trey Yeager and Marci Reading.

Would you look at that — a commonsense, bipartisan measure to rein in an unfortunate #SCOTUS ruling (the “tips are not bribes” one from last year). It can be done! TY to Rep. Dan Goldman & Congressman Juan Ciscomani.

Clean-up orders at #SCOTUS supremecourt.gov/orders/courtor…; 3 recusals: 1. Gorsuch in FOIA case involving the CIA operating a base at Gitmo (prior [DOJ] work?) 2. Thomas, in case where a pro se named CT in petition 3. Alito, in Parker Hannifin case➡️stock holdings docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

"For the highest court in the land, 90% of respondents said a binding and enforceable code of ethics should be established for the U.S. Supreme Court..." americanbar.org/news/reporter_…

LIVE NOW: Former federal defender Caryn Strickland arguing her own workplace harassment case before the Fourth Circuit. Incredibly rare & moving event youtube.com/live/6bIQtLP3h….

"Ex-public defender cries foul over long sexual harassment probe by Fourth Circuit" courthousenews.com/ex-public-defe… by Sydney Haulenbeek