What was checked
66case citations verified, volume and page, against court records
40+quotations from opinions matched word for word to the opinion text
15 of 15Senate confirmation votes matched to the Senate’s official records
Everydate, vote split, statistic, and news event checked against its source
How it was checked
- Court opinions and orders: slip opinions, orders, and dockets on supremecourt.gov; full opinion text through CourtListener and the Descrybe legal research engine; citations checked volume by volume.
- Confirmation hearings: testimony matched to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s printed hearing records on govinfo.gov, or, where noted, to transcripts published the same day by the Washington Post, NPR, and PBS. The book cites hearings by record number.
- Votes: confirmation tallies from the Senate’s official nominations records; case lineups from the opinions themselves.
- Data: caseload figures from the Chief Justice’s 2025 Year-End Report; public-opinion figures from Gallup, the Annenberg Public Policy Center, and the Marquette Law School Poll, each dated in the text.
- Reported events: matched to the original reporting (for example, ProPublica, the Associated Press, the New York Times, Politico, Bloomberg, and SCOTUSblog), with the subject’s response included wherever one was given.
What the checking changed
Dozens of errors and imprecisions were found and fixed before publication. A few examples:
- A famous line from the 2026 tariffs case was attributed to the Court’s majority; it appears in a part of the opinion joined by only three justices. The book now says so.
- A quotation from Chief Justice Roberts’s 2005 hearing was corrected to match the punctuation of the printed Senate record.
- A poll passage was updated to report that Republican approval of the Court partly recovered in September 2026, not just that it fell.
- A chart of the justices’ tenure was changed to show completed years, so no justice is credited with a year not yet served.
- A vote count for Trump v. Barbara now notes that the constitutional holding was 5–4, though the judgment was 6–3.
Limits
Decisions from 2026 are cited as “608 U.S. ___” and similar until the Court assigns final page numbers. A few confirmation-hearing quotations were confirmed against same-day published transcripts rather than the printed hearing volumes; the book cites hearings by record number, not page.
The book’s court records are current through mid-October 2026. Later developments will appear in future editions.
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Last updated October 15, 2026.