{"id":155815,"date":"2026-07-05T15:18:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T23:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/05\/supreme-court-term-goes-out-in-blaze-of-hypocrisy-false-retirements-and-bad-ratings-see-generally\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T15:18:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T23:18:42","slug":"supreme-court-term-goes-out-in-blaze-of-hypocrisy-false-retirements-and-bad-ratings-see-generally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/05\/supreme-court-term-goes-out-in-blaze-of-hypocrisy-false-retirements-and-bad-ratings-see-generally\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Term Goes Out In Blaze Of Hypocrisy, False Retirements, And Bad Ratings \u2014 See Generally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Roberts Writes Two Opinions With One Shrug Emoji<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/06\/john-roberts-trump-ftc-federal-reserve\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Chief Justice declared independent federal agencies unconstitutional and then turned around and, without a note of irony, said that OF COURSE the Federal Reseve is a duly ordained independent federal agency because\u2026 [trails off].<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Neil Gorsuch Takes Road Less Traveled By<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/07\/justice-gorsuchs-birthright-citizenship-dissent-will-not-make-donald-trump-happy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Birthright Citizenship case broke down into those who think the Fourteenth Amendment says what it plainly says and everyone agreed it said for well over a century, and conservatives looking to rewrite history\u2026 and Neil Gorsuch, who managed to find an idiosyncratic third path that both rejected the Fourteenth Amednment but seemed to cover children of undocumented migrants.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sam Alito Has Not Retired<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/06\/npr-reports-sam-alito-retires-from-supreme-court-spoiler-alert-he-did-not\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NPR accidentally published Nina Totenberg\u2019s pre-written Alito retirement piece, creating a 10 minute fire drill. But when all was said and done, Sam Alito continues to let his freak flag fly at the Supreme Court.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Supreme Court Sets Another Low Point<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/07\/new-poll-shows-americans-even-republicans-think-the-supreme-court-needs-to-be-reined-in\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New poll finds that only 22% of registered voters have \u201ca great deal\u201d or \u201cquite a bit\u201d of faith in the Supreme Court. Even 47% of Republicans say the Court needs stronger oversight.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>We\u2019re All Looking For The Guy Who Did This<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/07\/former-biglaw-partner-says-trumps-billion-dollar-crypto-haul-is-the-greatest-onslaught-of-corruption-in-the-history-of-mankind\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Former Trump lawyer Ty Cobb called Trump\u2019s $1 billion crypto haul \u201cthe greatest onslaught of corruption in the history of mankind.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Second Circuit Judge Collects Second Reprimand<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/06\/second-circuit-judge-sarah-merriam-disciplined-again-this-time-for-creating-a-tense-and-challenging-work-environment\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Judge Sarah Merriam has been scolded a the second time for creating a \u201ctense and challenging\u201d work environment.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Firms Clients Love, Or At Least Will Call Back<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/07\/corporate-counsel-have-spoken-these-are-the-law-firms-they-love\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BTI Consulting released its annual ranking of the 113 law firms that in-house counsel love most.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/07\/supreme-court-term-goes-out-in-blaze-of-hypocrisy-false-retirements-and-bad-ratings-see-generally\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Supreme Court Term Goes Out In Blaze Of Hypocrisy, False Retirements, And Bad Ratings \u2014 See Generally<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roberts Writes Two Opinions With One Shrug Emoji<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/06\/john-roberts-trump-ftc-federal-reserve\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Chief Justice declared independent federal agencies unconstitutional and then turned around and, without a note of irony, said that OF COURSE the Federal Reseve is a duly ordained independent federal agency because\u2026 [trails off].<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Neil Gorsuch Takes Road Less Traveled By<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/07\/justice-gorsuchs-birthright-citizenship-dissent-will-not-make-donald-trump-happy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Birthright Citizenship case broke down into those who think the Fourteenth Amendment says what it plainly says and everyone agreed it said for well over a century, and conservatives looking to rewrite history\u2026 and Neil Gorsuch, who managed to find an idiosyncratic third path that both rejected the Fourteenth Amednment but seemed to cover children of undocumented migrants.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sam Alito Has Not Retired<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/06\/npr-reports-sam-alito-retires-from-supreme-court-spoiler-alert-he-did-not\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NPR accidentally published Nina Totenberg\u2019s pre-written Alito retirement piece, creating a 10 minute fire drill. But when all was said and done, Sam Alito continues to let his freak flag fly at the Supreme Court.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Supreme Court Sets Another Low Point<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/07\/new-poll-shows-americans-even-republicans-think-the-supreme-court-needs-to-be-reined-in\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New poll finds that only 22% of registered voters have \u201ca great deal\u201d or \u201cquite a bit\u201d of faith in the Supreme Court. Even 47% of Republicans say the Court needs stronger oversight.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>We\u2019re All Looking For The Guy Who Did This<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/07\/former-biglaw-partner-says-trumps-billion-dollar-crypto-haul-is-the-greatest-onslaught-of-corruption-in-the-history-of-mankind\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Former Trump lawyer Ty Cobb called Trump\u2019s $1 billion crypto haul \u201cthe greatest onslaught of corruption in the history of mankind.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Second Circuit Judge Collects Second Reprimand<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/06\/second-circuit-judge-sarah-merriam-disciplined-again-this-time-for-creating-a-tense-and-challenging-work-environment\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Judge Sarah Merriam has been scolded a the second time for creating a \u201ctense and challenging\u201d work environment.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Firms Clients Love, Or At Least Will Call Back<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/07\/corporate-counsel-have-spoken-these-are-the-law-firms-they-love\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BTI Consulting released its annual ranking of the 113 law firms that in-house counsel love most.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roberts Writes Two Opinions With One Shrug Emoji: The Chief Justice declared independent federal agencies unconstitutional and then turned around and, without a note of irony, said that OF COURSE the Federal Reseve is a duly ordained independent federal agency because\u2026 [trails off]. Neil Gorsuch Takes Road Less Traveled By: The Birthright Citizenship case broke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":155816,"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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-1386229149-VHZPq0.jpg?fit=724%2C483&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155815","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=155815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}