One First

I’m still hoping to write about tomorrow’s twenty-fifth anniversary of September 11—a defining moment not just in my life (as a New Yorker who went to elementary school in the literal shadows of the Twin Towers), but in shaping the trajectory of my career. I’m also hoping to preview the stakes of the Court’s impending ruling in the mail-in ballots case, although my Georgetown...

Welcome back to “One First,” a newsletter that aims to make the U.S. Supreme Court more accessible to lawyers and non-lawyers alike. I’m grateful to all of you for your continued support, and I hope that you’ll consider sharing some of what we’re doing with your networks.

As I feared when Chief Justice Roberts issued an administrative stay of the district court’s injunction on August 21, a 5-4 major...

Welcome back to “One First,” a newsletter that aims to make the U.S. Supreme Court more accessible to lawyers and non-lawyers alike. I’m grateful to all of you for your continued support, and I hope that you’ll consider sharing some of what we’re doing with your networks.

I have spent a good chunk of my professional career criticizing federal judges in print—including, more than once, Judge Reed O’Connor and Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, to take two recent and prominent e...