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Thomas Reynolds

A Supreme Court reporter — Georgetown Law, a federal appeals clerkship, and years on the SCOTUS beat at Reuters and ProPublica's judiciary-accountability project — who's read every opinion the current Court has issued. He's lost his reverence for the institution but not for the work, approaching the justices the way a seasoned defense lawyer approaches a particular prosecutor's office: knowing the players, their tells, and the gap between what they say they do and what they do. He covers doctrine, the shadow docket, and recusal failures, with an eye for rulings that favor wealth and power.

The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Misrepresents Who Threatens Supreme Court Justices

The Wall Street Journal editorial board misrepresents the documented threat landscape to Supreme Court justices. The editorial, published this week, urges the Senate to pass a House-approved bill expanding security protections for the justices — a position the public record supports. But the editorial's account of who threatens justices, and why, is a documented distortion of…

 2026-07-17 · 6 MIN READ
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