{"id":130242,"date":"2025-08-11T15:48:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T23:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/11\/for-hopeful-supreme-court-litigants-it-helps-to-have-friendsmdashand-lots-of-them-2\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T15:48:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T23:48:42","slug":"for-hopeful-supreme-court-litigants-it-helps-to-have-friendsmdashand-lots-of-them-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/11\/for-hopeful-supreme-court-litigants-it-helps-to-have-friendsmdashand-lots-of-them-2\/","title":{"rendered":"For Hopeful Supreme Court Litigants, It Helps to Have Friends—And Lots of Them"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the U.S. Supreme Court taking fewer cases, lawyers have increasingly turned to outside groups to help catch the attention of the justices and, just as importantly, their clerks.<\/p>\n

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With the U.S. Supreme Court taking fewer cases, lawyers have increasingly turned to outside groups to help catch the attention of the justices and, just as importantly, their clerks.<\/p>\n

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With the U.S. Supreme Court taking fewer cases, lawyers have increasingly turned to outside groups to help catch the attention of the justices and, just as importantly, their clerks. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 With the U.S. Supreme Court taking fewer cases, lawyers have increasingly turned to outside groups to help catch the attention of the justices and, just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":130229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/legal-news-xRRPdA.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}