Manifesto
SCOTUSblog is devoted to covering the U.S. Supreme Court comprehensively, without bias and according to the highest journalistic and legal ethical standards. The site is provided as a public service.
Originally founded in 2002, SCOTUSblog was later acquired by Dispatch Media, Inc. in 2025. For over 20 years, our staff and contributors have included talented lawyers, law professors, and journalists covering the court with clarity and precision.
SCOTUSblog generally reports on merits cases before the court at least three times: before argument, after argument, and after the decision. We note all of the paid cert petitions that raise a legal question we believe may interest the justices; we give additional coverage to particularly significant petitions and emergency applications. For the merits cases and the petitions we cover, we provide access to all the briefs.
On each day that the court announces decisions, we host our popular live blog feature with real-time breaking news coverage. Readers join us from around the world to have their questions answered and hear first how the justices rule.
Beyond the court’s docket, we provide significant coverage and analysis of nominations to the court, special projects and symposia, and coverage of the justices’ financial disclosures. We maintain a calendar of the court’s schedule. We also regularly publish statistics relating to the court’s term.
We are committed to ensuring that all the material we collect and publish is easily accessible on our site. If your work is featured on SCOTUSblog, please let us know if we have accidentally failed to credit you. We will correct the error immediately.
Editorial Staff
Amy Howe
Reporter
Zachary Shemtob
Executive Editor
Kelsey Dallas
Managing Editor
Nora Collins
Editorial Assistant
Regular Contributors
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Relist Watch
Ronald Mann
Court Analysis
Katie Barlow
Media Editor
Mark Walsh
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