Adam Liptak
@adamliptak.bsky.social
I cover the Supreme Court for The New York Times.
Striking Down Pentagon Press Limits, Judge Vindicates Independent Journalism The ruling cut deeper than left-versus-right politics, declaring that the policy imposed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is unconstitutional. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...
Striking Down Pentagon Press Limits, Judge Vindicates Independent Journalism
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The front section of Tuesday’s print version of The Washington Post includes 19 news articles. Seven are by the Associated Press.
Today’s unanimous opinion in Royal Canin, from Kagan, features the first (“Posner, J.”) parenthetical in a Supreme Court decision in five years. Lexis says there have been 33, starting in 1985.
R.I.P George Priest, a great scholar with a fine sense of humor who did what he could to teach me antitrust and products liability law. law.yale.edu/yls-today/ne...
Yale Law School Mourns the Loss of Edward J. Phelps Professor of Law and Economics George L. Priest
George L. Priest, the Edward J. Phelps Professor of Law and Economics at Yale Law School, died on Dec. 17, 2024 at the age of 77.
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Supreme Court tries online lottery for public seats for arguments www.supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/p...
Press Release of Supreme Court of the United State
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Thanks to @adamliptak.bsky.social for spotlighting the 1925 law that "grant[ed] the Supreme Court an extraordinary power: to pick which cases it would decide." Honored to see my HLR article cited alongside Robert Post's truly foundational work on this topic. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/u... 🗃️
A Century-Old Law’s Aftershocks Are Still Felt at the Supreme Court
In 1925, Congress let the justices choose the cases they would decide. That change “continues to prompt political contention and crisis,” a scholar argues.
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The overnight line outside SCOTUS for Wednesday’s argument in Skrmetti.
