A little Law Dork breather

And, with it, a summer sale!

It’s been a tough year, there’s no doubt about it.

I get it, and, to help me prepare for what’s ahead, I need a little breather.

As we go into the next two weeks, I am going on vacation, where I plan to be fully off, and then getting in some family time, when I’m planning to work at a reduced pace. During that time, however, I am taking a pointer from others and giving you all a sale price for paid subscriptions at Law Dork.

Over the next two weeks — through the end of August 31 — a paid subscription to Law Dork is 15% off.

The importance of my independent legal journalism has never been more clear.

I’ve published 143 posts so far in 2026, garnering more than 9.5 million views.

I’ve been covering the U.S. Supreme Court in depth, as always, but also going to district court hearings and covering courts that have never heard a case until now.

I’ve been covering, in great depth, the winding effort by the Trump administration, and the Justice Department in particular, to go after those involved in the provision of gender-affirming medical care for minors — including in states where such care is legal or even specifically protected by state law.

I have covered the Trump administration’s extreme immigration enforcement efforts — deadly as they have become — throughout the year as well. This coverage has led to multiple exclusive reports — and a partially successfully effort to make court action in Minnesota more open to the public across the country.

And, I have tried to focus on the bigger picture of the damage President Donald Trump — often with support from the Supreme Court and Congress — is doing to the republic.

Then, there is the Justice Department. This has included coverage several prosecutions that have appeared plainly to be politically motivated, not to mention the White House ballroom and Kennedy Center cases. And now Todd Blanche is attorney general.

And armed National Guard troops continue walking around D.C.

I am ready for a little break. (I need a little break.) I am taking a theater vacation and plan to be offline for the next week and then working at a reduced pace for the following week. (For longtime Law Dork readers, this is essentially a reverse version of what I did last summer.)

While I head off to explore some theater — meaning, see a ton of theater — and get in some family time, though, I also wanted to give you something this summer.

During the next two weeks, if you get a paid subscription to Law Dork through August 31, it will be 15% off for the first year.

This will apply to all new paid subscriptions through the end of August and will get you access to my “Closing my tabs” feature, where I give you some insight into the stories on my radar that haven’t made it into a newsletter yet. They include heads up notes on key pieces published elsewhere, as well as opinions issued in the lower courts and new cases that catch my eye, among other topics.

If you have wanted to get a paid subscription to Law Dork, now’s the time to do so.

Thanks, and let us try to be good to one another — and ourselves — over the next two weeks.

P.S. — And, to the many of you who already have a paid subscription: Thank you, thank you, thank you. You have made this possible — both over the past four-plus years and for me to take a vacation and be able to recharge. It means the world to me that you all do this for me.