I'm off to SCOTUS — but, first, a thank you!

This is the final day of year two at Law Dork. Friday will be the start of year three of this adventure!

Good morning!

I am getting ready to head down to the U.S. Supreme Court, where we are expecting to get some of the remaining 22 decisions from this term’s cases — including cases involving Trump’s immunity claim and other January 6 prosecutions, abortion, guns, and social media.

First, though, I wanted to tell you a few things — and to thank all of you.

Today is an important day for me and the Law Dork community: This is the final day of year two at Law Dork. Friday will be the start of year three of this adventure — I honestly can’t believe it! — and I am so grateful to have nearly 33,000 of you subscribing to follow what happens next.

I am so thankful to those who have gone further with a paid subscription. Paid subscribers help to make Law Dork — the independent legal journalism that I’ve been producing for the past two years and 390 posts — possible.

What I offer

Over the past year, I’ve brought you — and the country — big stories that have garnered national attention and made a difference.

Last August, I broke the news that a federal judge in Texas had ordered lawyers to undergo “religious liberty training” from the far-right Christian legal advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). I kept up with that story into the fall, and just this month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit blocked the training — acknowledging the constitutional concerns raised with the order.

I exclusively reported over the winter that Idaho was receiving legal help “without charge” from ADF and just last month that Justice Sam Alito was making beer company stock trades that aligned with an anti-trans beer boycott.

In addition to those key stories I’ve broken, I also brought you ongoing coverage of litigation over LGBTQ rights, particularly challenges to anti-trans laws. I’ve been the leading national journalist covering the ongoing, disturbing Alabama judge-shopping investigation.

I’ve reported extensively on the death penalty, abortion, and immigration over the past year as well. I’ve also stayed on top of the democracy concerns facing our nation — including voting rights, efforts to hold Donald Trump accountable, and the Supreme Court itself (and coverage of the court).

In all of my coverage, I don’t just bring you the news, either. I provide you with necessary context that my experience makes possible — and that is often missing from mainstream news coverage.

Why pay?

As a show of appreciation for my paid subscribers, I started the Law Dork Nine in April — where a legal figure that I think you all will want to hear more from answers nine questions about their career, the law, and life.

The next Law Dork Nine is coming on Monday, so get ready and get a paid subscription now if you don’t have one already! Also, if you are a new paid subscriber, the responses from past interviewees, Robbie Kaplan and Tona Boyd, are available to you now!

For today and Friday, though, I’ll be at the Supreme Court — bringing you the news and working to hold the Supreme Court accountable through my unique brand of reporting that gives you the facts and analysis of what a decision means, includes and explains the context within the Court and in the law, and doesn’t ignore the real consequences of the Court’s actions. And, when it matters, not hiding what I think.

Thanks — so much — for your support,

Chris