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Kelsey Reichmann

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SCOTUS reporter @ Courthouse News Come for the legal news, stay for the Taylor Swift commentary and cat photos Signal: @kreichmann.13

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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 16h ago

The justices chastised an appeals court for forcing them to intervene again “Given this court’s two prior orders in this litigation, our conclusion that this was error should come as no surprise” www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...

Supreme Court shuts down Missouri GOP-gerrymandered map for third time

Despite two Supreme Court rulings to the contrary, a lower court allowed Missouri Republicans to use a gerrymandered map for the November election.

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Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · 17h ago

Supreme Court shuts down Missouri GOP-gerrymandered map for third time @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...

Supreme Court shuts down Missouri GOP-gerrymandered map for third time

Despite two Supreme Court rulings to the contrary, a lower court allowed Missouri Republicans to use a gerrymandered map for the November election.

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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 17h ago

Breaking: Supreme Court blocks lower court order allowing use of Missouri’s GOP-gerrymandered maps, again This marks the third time the justices have weighed in on the appeal and ruled against the use of the gerrymandered maps in the last month.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 23h ago

you guys broke watergate

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · yesterday

Is asking someone to leave the beverages at home for an interview as fussy as reminding a lady to wear pantyhose or a gentleman to ask before lighting a cigarette? We assembled a team of Post staffers across the newsroom — and commenters — to find out: https://wapo.st/4dwx0LS

Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · 24h ago

#BREAKING: Supreme Court greenlights national citizenship database ahead of midterms @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...

Supreme Court greenlights national citizenship database ahead of midterms

President Trump’s baseless election fraud claims surrounding widespread noncitizen voting have led to a slew of legal battles ahead of the November election.

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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 24h ago

BREAKING: Supreme Court grants Trump admin emergency appeal to revive national citizenship database Feds asked to revive mods to USCIS SAVE tool using Social Security info for a searchable database that would be used for voter verification

Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · yesterday

I know we’re all back in our Showgirl era this morning but ICYMI last night, Jackson to the modern emergency docket www.courthousenews.com/jackson-says...

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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 2d ago

Jackson on the emergency docket: “Our modern methods are not serving the court or the country well” @courthousenews.bsky.social

Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 2d ago

Full report here: Jackson says all is not well on the Supreme Court emergency docket www.courthousenews.com/jackson-says...

Jackson says all is not well on the Supreme Court emergency docket

The most junior member of the high court has been outspoken about her objections to her colleagues’ actions on the emergency docket.

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Kelsey Reichmann@kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 2d ago

Justice Jackson is speaking about the emergency docket at UDC tonight. She's giving students a detailed breakdown of stay applications, which is quite unique for the kind of speeches the justices typically give

Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 2d ago

Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d ago

Note also that last sentence: Trying to preemptively get around Justice Jackson's authority as circuit justice.

In light of the ongoing disruption caused by the First Circuit as well as
the prior stays granted by the full Court, if the Circuit Justice enters a briefing schedule without also entering an immediate administrative stay, the government respect-
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fully requests that its request for the immediate administrative stay be referred to the full Court. Cf. Rollins v. Rhode Island State Council of Churches, 146 S. Ct. 402
(2025) (No. 25A539); A.A.R.P. v. Trump, 145 S. Ct. 1034 (2025) (No. 24A1007).

Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 2d ago

NEWS: Trump asks SCOTUS to free DHS from restrictions on third-country deportations @courthousenews.bsky.social

Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 2d ago

We’re getting new Taylor Swift music, Fourth Wing novella, and ACOTAR 6 and you want me to focus on a new SCOTUS term?

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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 3d ago

School opposition brief to a SCOTUS cert petition asking to review prohibition of "Let's Go Brandon" t-shirts led by none other than Lisa Blatt

Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 3d ago

The White House is bragging about its mobile app amid legal fight over its new media ban (this was sent to the press distro)

Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 3d ago

The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore !!!! Who needs coffee when Taylor is releasing new music

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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 3d ago

This petition was rescheduled for a later conference.

Kelsey Reichmann@kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Supreme Court added Khalid Shaikh Mohammad's cert petition to the long list of appeals being considered during the long conference on 9/28 www.courthousenews.com/nearly-25-ye...

Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 3d ago

ICYMI: Justice Kagan denied an emergency appeal from McKenna West seeking to intervene in the medical care of a critically ill infant she gave birth to against the California parents' wishes @courthousenews.bsky.social

Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · 4d ago

The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to wade into the emergency appeal brought by an Alaska surrogate who demanded to keep a California couple’s critically ill newborn. @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/scotus-stays...

SCOTUS stays out of thorny surrogacy fight

After having a baby against the parents’ wishes, a surrogate turned to the Supreme Court for help influencing the newborn’s ongoing medical care.

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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 3d ago

Coming back after vacation to see that Missouri maps are back at SCOTUS

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Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · last wk.

Illinois Senator Dick Durbin on Wednesday discouraged Democrats from engaging in the same political gamesmanship over Supreme Court nominees as their Republican colleagues if the party wins the majority in November. @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/durbin-pours...

Durbin pours cold water on Democratic hopes for SCOTUS hardball

The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee said that any future Supreme Court nominees should get a vote, regardless of which party controls Congress.

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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’m going to need a minute

Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 2w ago

Per Kelsey Reichmann at @courthousenews.bsky.social, Supreme Court DENIES Trump’s emergency request to restrict mail-in ballots for midterm election. Alito and Thomas dissent.

Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 2w ago

When SCOTUS breaking news gets in the way of Taylor watch

Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 2w ago

BREAKING: Supreme Court DENIES Trump’s emergency request to restrict mail-in ballots for midterm election @courthousenews.bsky.social Alito and Thomas dissent

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2w ago

We’re now past 5p Monday with no order from SCOTUS on DOJ’s mail ballot rule stay request. Every day that passes makes it less likely SCOTUS will allow the USPS rule to be in effect for this election (b/c more harm is created for the states/groups daily) — and more likely that someone is writing.

The Supreme Court will choose soon whether Trump can illegally take over elections

Election law expert Rick Hasen said it’s an “easy” question and Trump should lose. Also: A New York health care provider folded to Trump’s anti-trans aims. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEWS: McConnell says he’ll return to the Senate today

honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social · 2w ago

If someone could figure out how to monetize not being shitty humans, they’d really be doing us all a solid.

Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 2w ago

ICYMI: Kavanaugh on Friday: “The nature of warfare goes up and down in popularity, but don’t let that detract from your understanding of the potential for unity and the shared values” www.courthousenews.com/kavanaugh-re...

Kelsey Reichmann@kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 2w ago

Kavanaugh recalls 9/11 chaos, defends Bush's war on terror www.courthousenews.com/kavanaugh-re...