For folks looking for some stats about the Court, Epstein, Andrew D. Martin, and I have a preliminary report on the term: static1.squarespace.com/static/6018850…. Hopefully this will be useful for teaching. SCDB data update will be out in August.

The executive branch has asked the Supreme Court to answer this question: supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/2…

For reasons I'll make public soon, I have been tracking newly filed petitions for certiorari at the Supreme Court. Yesterday—July 1—the Court began assigning docket numbers beginning "25-" instead of "24-" Look who filed (first one is with the Stanford Clinic). What do they know?

Today from the Supreme Court: two new cases about trans athletes, a new case about the scope of the Heck v. Humphrey bar, and a case about sovereign immunity and Hyatt v. FTB. supremecourt.gov/orders/courtor…

Genuinely believe Denzel Clarke is one of the most interesting baseball stories of the season. Electric.

The Phanatic is dancing to "Surfin' U.S.A." with Betsy Ross and Ben Franklin on top of the Phillies dugout. What a tribute to Brian Wilson. Reds lead, 9-6.

"What two or three suggestions would you make to improve this course in the future?" 🦅

The way to learn how baseball is played is not to read the official rule book. It's to watch a lot of meaningless baseball in July.

Abstract and SSRN link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

This is the opinion—Blackmun in Casey—that set me down this path. Judicial opinions don't reach for this register very often.