John Fritze

Covering the Supreme Court for @CNN. Formers: @USATODAY @baltimoresun @indystar

[Paula Reid @PaulaReidCNN]

"But I do not think the American people have issues with that. To the contrary, I think they do want their tax dollars spent on things like that." - Acting AG Todd Blanche in response to my question about taxpayer concerns about this $1.8B "Anti-Weaponization Fund." @TheSourceCNN

[John Fritze @jfritze]

This was denied a few minutes later. No noted dissents. https://t.co/8YiudONCKH

[John Fritze @jfritze]

Reply brief lands in the Virginia redistricting application pending at SCOTUS. "Time grows short, but it is not yet too late." Applicants brush off comments from the governor this week that the state will proceed under the old map. https://t.co/ojw44iyqhB

[Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein]

@steve_vladeck rebuts Justice Amy Coney Barrett's claim that the media makes #SCOTUS look more partisan through post hoc tinkering with which cases are big ones
https://t.co/mU50BV2AXe

[John Fritze @jfritze]

Chief Justice Roberts makes a rare interruption of oral arguments to announce an impending flyover of planes. Says he didn't want people to be alarmed. Jokes: "I don't know why they didn’t check with me." Justice Barrett jokes she'll try to get her questions out before the noise.

[John Fritze @jfritze]

Sketches from inside the Supreme Court today as President Donald Trump attended the birthright citizenship arguments: https://t.co/sfKdKi1dC5

[John Fritze @jfritze]

"Just out of curiosity, do you think we should ask Claude to decide this case?" Justice Alito jokes with Adam Unikowsky, who has been a proponent of AI in the law. "No," Unikowsky responds. "I adhere to the wise judgment of this court."

[Kara Scannell @KaraScannell]

Trump gets another shot to try to move the criminal hush money case into federal court. Second Circuit appeals court judges send the case back to the district judge to reconsider. With @jfritze https://t.co/8PWrROFO7S

[John Fritze @jfritze]

Justice Amy Coney Barrett defends overturning Roe v. Wade and reveals Supreme Court dynamics in new book: https://t.co/7EyHCzLpAr

[John Fritze @jfritze]

There's a lot of "Humphrey’s Executor" in this Lisa Cook complaint. Here's some background on that case: https://t.co/BItjZLyksw

[CNN Breaking News @cnnbrk]

Fed Governor Lisa Cook files lawsuit over President Trump's attempt to fire her.
https://t.co/HlTVmvno8K

[Michael Li 李之樸 @mcpli]

NEW: Louisiana has filed its supplemental SCOTUS brief in the Louisiana congressional redistricting case on the constitutionality of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

https://t.co/rKmEHPi8mU

[John Fritze @jfritze]

@mamajello @jmhansler @Phil_Mattingly It’s essentially shorthand for: 1) We don’t know which justice wrote it and 2) We don’t get a vote count. It’s relatively common on the court’s emergency docket. See this: https://t.co/gUxyXwCuRU And compare to this: https://t.co/aqqbzhqNfr

[John Fritze @jfritze]

"Things were a little crunched toward the end." - Chief Justice John Roberts.

[Jonathan H. Adler @jadler1969]

Justices Sotomayor and Kagan lead pack with 5 majority opinions each. CJ Roberts and Kavanaugh have only 3. The rest have 4 a piece. (And there have been 7 Per curiam opinions.)

[John Fritze @jfritze]

Trump has privately complained that his Supreme Court nominees -- Barrett, particular -- have not sufficiently stood behind his agenda, according to multiple sources. https://t.co/CYAnHoCg5y

[John Fritze @jfritze]

Latest briefing at SCOTUS (in the probationary firings case) signed by newly confirmed solicitor general D. John Sauer.

[Ben Pershing @benpershing]

Trump can’t end birthright citizenship, appeals court says, setting up Supreme Court showdown https://t.co/cpHwBkHyDd

[Paula Reid @PaulaReidCNN]

JUST IN: First significant win for Trump Admin as federal judge in Boston says federal worker buyout program can proceed, for now. He said unions, which brought lawsuit on behalf of members, do not have standing to bring case.

[Niki Kelly @nkellyIN]

Indiana was right all along...