Zach Schonfeld

@zschonfeld.bsky.social

Reporter covering the Supreme Court and the intersection of the judiciary & national politics for The Hill. zschonfeld@thehill.com.

SPOTTED: Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, went over to chat with Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley at today’s memorial for Sandra Day O’Connor. Grassley was the only lawmaker who showed up to the special session.

A guide to Supreme Court justices' attendance at the State of the Union: Roberts, Kagan & Kavanaugh typically go. Barrett skipped '24 but otherwise does, too. Sotomayor & Gorsuch sometimes go. Jackson went for Biden, but wasn't at Trump's speech last year. Alito & Thomas haven't gone in years.

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Supreme Court punts on whether the Trump administration can fire the head of the U.S. Copyright Office (part of the Library of Congress) It'll wait until deciding if Trump can fire the FTC's Rebecca Slaughter and the Fed's Lisa Cook. Clarence Thomas voted to OK the firing now

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John Bolton has arrived at the federal courthouse in Greenbelt, Md. to surrender. No photos allowed inside here. But after he entered, he went to the bathroom and was then taken back into the US Marshals office

NEW: The Supreme Court rejects South Carolina's request to enforce its transgender bathroom ban against a transgender boy in 9th grade. The order says it "is not a ruling on the merits of the legal issues." Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissent

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Supreme Court announces the question they’ll consider when they rehear a major redistricting case in Louisiana next term: “Whether the State’s intentional creation of a second majority-minority congressional district violates the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution.”

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Spotted in the courtroom gallery for today’s tariff argument: Judge Pauline Newman, 98, the nation’s oldest active federal judge. Newman’s colleagues have prevented her from hearing new cases over concerns about her mental fitness. Newman is suing her colleagues over it.

The Supreme Court has no pending emergency appeals from the Trump administration for the first time since March 25. With today’s ruling permitting Trump’s firing of CPSC members, all *20* of the admin’s emergency applications have been disposed of one way or another.