👤 Josh Blackman

69 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
69
2026-08-24 – 2026-10-16
Claims per article
18
1,251 extracted in total
Hedged claims
8%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
2,130
characters · 3 tagged analysis
Writes for Reason.
Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

What they cover

Politics
93%
Technology
4%
Crime & Law
1%
Education
1%
Most-tagged topics
Courtthe Supreme Courtthe Fifth CircuitMissouriRepublicanThe Supreme CourtCaliforniaCongress

Leaning

+0.28 average ± 0.22 · +0.35 median · 22 scored articles
Sits to the right of their own outlet, which averages -0.07 — the whole interval clears it. Leaning rates the writing, not the subject. How it is scored.

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-09-15 · Reason · Politics
Chief Justice Roberts Goes Postal on Trump's USPS Rule
23 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-09-27 · Reason · Politics
A Few More Thoughts On The Missouri Ruling
15 outlets covered this event · leans strongly left
2026-09-25 · Reason · Politics
Lightning Strikes Thrice
15 outlets covered this event · leans right
2026-09-30 · Reason · Politics
SCOTUS Stays Third-Party Removal Injunction 40 Minutes After Reply Filed
13 outlets covered this event
2026-09-25 · Reason · Politics
Because KBJ Denied Administrative Stay in Third-Country Removal Case, The Application Should Be Referred To The Full Court Now
13 outlets covered this event · leans strongly right
2026-09-11 · Reason · Politics
The Contempt Judgment From Missouri
6 outlets covered this event

What they said would happen

2026-08-24 · Reason
AI Freezes The Scholarly Voice
🔮 Thus, any text generated by the AI will be in the same sort of style that the professor has--or perhaps had. assertive
2026-08-25 · Reason
How Long Did Justice Jackson's "Kafkaesque Nightmare" Dissent Hold Up Trump v. California?
🔮 One would think that a former federal courts professor in the majority would get these cases, but apparently not. assertive
2026-08-26 · Reason
A Wall Of Separation Between LGB and T
🔮 The Log Cabin Republicans will no longer advocate on transgender issues. assertive
2026-09-04 · Reason
Eleventh Circuit Holds Qui Tam Relators Are Not "Officers of the United States." What Happens Next?
🔮 In 1989, William Barr, the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, put forward that position in a memorandum opinion for the Attorney General. assertive
2026-09-09 · Reason
A Strange Sorting Feature On The Supreme Court's Docket
🔮 Often, an order from a Justice will be entered before the notation for reply briefs, even though the reply briefs were filed before the order. assertive
2026-09-09 · Reason
Will It Matter That ABA Council Repealed The DEI Standard?
🔮 There was no evidence this standard was necessary or would actually improve race relations. assertive
2026-09-11 · Reason
The Contempt Judgment From Missouri
🔮 Indeed, conflicting rulings from the Missouri Supreme Court and the Eighth Circuit would present the same issue. assertive
2026-09-15 · Reason
Chief Justice Roberts Goes Postal on Trump's USPS Rule
🔮 The majority couldn't be bothered to say anything more than a sentence. assertive
2026-09-17 · Reason
Not Using A Smartphone Burdens Others
🔮 I would keep the actual telephone on, so I could receive calls and text messages. assertive
2026-09-17 · Reason
Seven Federal Judges From Minnesota Talk To The N.Y. Times About Trump Administration
🔮 Some of these interviews very well may violate the canons of judicial ethics. assertive
2026-09-18 · Reason
New Article: Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections: Bringing Clarity To The Necessary and Proper Clause
🔮 In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that Landor could not sue the guards in federal court for monetary damages. assertive
2026-09-18 · Reason
AI and Ghostwriting
🔮 He is quite right that readers would become tired with the same statement in every essay. assertive
2026-09-23 · Reason
New In Civitas: The Smithsonian Should Be Privatized
🔮 The Chief Justice may think he can smooth things over with press releases and surrogate statements. assertive
2026-09-25 · Reason
Because KBJ Denied Administrative Stay in Third-Country Removal Case, The Application Should Be Referred To The Full Court Now
🔮 Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent I may have to eat crow on the lightning docket (no order in the Missouri case), but things are brewing with the thirty-country removal case. assertive
2026-09-25 · Reason
Lightning Strikes Thrice
🔮 Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent The sun is setting shortly and I'm on the go, so my comments about the Missouri order will be brief. mixed
2026-09-27 · Reason
A Few More Thoughts On The Missouri Ruling
🔮 Judge Stras offered some remarks at a pre-scheduled event at William & Mary: assertive
2026-09-30 · Reason
SCOTUS Stays Third-Party Removal Injunction 40 Minutes After Reply Filed
🔮 That is, Jackson could have given a week or longer, but that delay would have triggered an administrative stay. assertive
2026-09-30 · Reason
District Court Declares Vacatur (Likely) Unconstitutional
🔮 Even if Congress were to enact a law clearly empowering Article III courts to vacate agency rules or regulations and automatically cause their erasure from the Code of Federal Regulations, vacatur would likely still be inconsistent with the limited nature of the judicial power and the non-delegability of core legislative power to the judiciary. assertive
2026-10-01 · Reason
Somehow the N.Y. Times Made Me Sympathetic To Chief Justice Roberts
🔮 Since he joined the Court, Roberts and his family would seek solace from the swamp at Hupper Island after the Court dismisses for the term. assertive
2026-10-01 · Reason
When Judges Pick Their Law Clerks As Replacements
🔮 In December 2017, I wrote in National Review that Republican-appointed judges should consider taking senior status so President Trump could fill those seats. assertive
2026-10-02 · Reason
Todd Butler's Problematic Publications
🔮 "It follows that if the underpinning is removed, the increasing professionalism will also disappear. assertive
2026-10-02 · Reason
Todd Butler Compared Street Preacher In Supreme Court Case To "Domestic Terrorism"
🔮 The conduct caused disturbances that would have resulted in violence had law enforcement not intervened. assertive
2026-10-02 · Reason
How Would A Judge Butler Actually Affect The Fifth Circuit?
🔮 (Southwick's already fragile reputation would be irreparably tarnished by such a move.) assertive
2026-10-04 · Reason
Comparing the Credentials Of Three Decades of Fifth Circuit Nominees
🔮 He could have served in government, but he didn't. assertive
2026-10-05 · Reason
Alito Hints That The Dobbs Knew A Member of the Majority Would Be Subject To Assassination
🔮 "But within a relatively short period of time, the thought occurred to me, and I think to the others in the majority, that this would endanger us. assertive
2026-10-06 · Reason
Lurching Through The Audition Trap
🔮 Just as there are no doubt those on the bench who have strong ambitions for future office, there are others who are happy to be public servants, but who would be just as happy earning their living by some other means. assertive
2026-10-08 · Reason
Justice Alito Calls Out Empty Reporting From "Court Watcher" Joan Biskupic
🔮 Kyle asks: Well, I don't know how much coverage of the court you read, but you may not be surprised to learn that one light motif is that you are brooding figure. assertive
2026-10-13 · Reason
New Essay: "The Establishment Clause At The Second Founding"
🔮 The regulations for Freedmen schools in Texas provided that classes would begin at 9 A.M. and "[t]he morning Exercises will commence with either the singing of an appropriate hymn, or prayer, or the reading of the Scriptures." assertive
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