After recapping last week’s #SCOTUS news (including the Alexander ruling), today’s “One First” uses the appointment of a new Supreme Court Librarian to explore Congress’s power to create and regulate the Supreme Court’s four “officers”—and what it could mean for creating a fifth:

So long, #ATX .

Thanks for everything—and keep it weird!

Today’s bonus issue of my “One First” #SCOTUS newsletter looks at the Alito flag stories through the lens of judicial humility.

Humility is an important component of judicial credibility—and, as Justice Alito’s responses to these stories make clear, it’s completely lacking here:

#SCOTUS is set to hand down more decisions in argued cases starting at 10 ET today.

Here's my list of what's left, sorted by when it was argued. Yellow = major case; orange = consolidated with case above.

(This list doesn't include 'Good Neighbor' ozone pollution applications.)

Today’s bonus issue of my “One First” #SCOTUS newsletter looks at the Alito flag stories through the lens of judicial humility.

Humility is an important component of judicial credibility—and, as Justice Alito’s responses to these stories make clear, it’s completely lacking here:

Paperback in the wild!!

I wonder what the neighbors did to provoke this one…

Can confirm.

Today is the paperback publication date for “The Shadow Docket”—including a brand-new preface on how events of the past year underscore the need to look at #SCOTUS ’s work far more holistically.

Basic Books is offering 20% off with the code 'VLADECK24':

tinyurl.com/shadowdocketpb

For this week’s regular issue of “One First,” I wrote about last week’s CFPB and Louisiana redistricting rulings—and some of the difficulties that can arise from efforts to categorize #SCOTUS based on individual decisions (and a shifting, and Court-controlled baseline):

#SCOTUS denies cert. in a #GTMO case in which Justices Kavanaugh and Jackson had both participated in decisions while serving on the D.C. Circuit.

One of them explains their recusal; one doesn’t.

For this week’s regular issue of “One First,” I wrote about last week’s CFPB and Louisiana redistricting rulings—and some of the difficulties that can arise from efforts to categorize #SCOTUS based on individual decisions (and a shifting, and Court-controlled baseline):

It me.

“Who do you have for Civ Pro?”

“Vladeck.”

“Which one?”

Definitely not going to confuse *any* Georgetown Law 1Ls… :-)

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We're going to come back to this a lot over the next six weeks, but *please* don't confuse ' #SCOTUS slaps down a wackadoodle Fifth Circuit decision' with ' #SCOTUS is more moderate than its critics claim.'

'Not as radical as the Fifth Circuit' is not the same as 'moderate.'

One of the themes of this term is going to be how few votes the Fifth Circuit has, even on the current Court, for its more radical ... interpretations ... of the Constitution and relevant federal statutes.

Here, it got Alito and Gorsuch on appropriations, and *no one else.*

Third (and last) decision is CFPB.

For 7-2 Court, Justice Thomas *reverses* Fifth Circuit; upholds CFPB funding scheme.

Alito, joined by Gorsuch, dissents:

supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf…

Second #SCOTUS opinion is Sotomayor for a unanimous Court in Smith re: the Federal Arbitration Act:

supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf…