Hi!

In less than two weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court will be back in session — starting its new term about a month before Election Day.

I wanted to reach out to you before all of that to say thank you.

When I launched Law Dork in June 2022, I had no idea if I’d still be doing this more than two years later. But with more than 36,000 of you subscribed to Law Dork, I’m so grateful to be in the position I am in: preparing to cover another term at the court from this space. It also will be the first presidential election I’ll be covering from Law Dork.

The centrality of the law to this moment has been unavoidable. Donald Trump and immunity. The challenges — and worse — of the post-Roe landscape. Attacks on transgender people and LGBTQ people more broadly. Supreme Court justices, ethics, and reform. Texas’s attempted immigration takeover.

The news has been nonstop — and I’ve been bringing you the needed stories and context constantly. Over the past year, I’ve published 246 posts at Law Dork, generating more than 7 million page views. I’ve expanded the type of coverage I’m bringing you, too, having published several Law Dork video discussions. (Another one, that I’m really proud of, is on its way.)

Now, though, is the part where I ask for your help. I don’t have a billionaire backer — like some publications (or justices) do. Instead, I rely on all of you: individual paid subscribers. And proudly so. It’s important because it allows me to maintain my independence.

Please support Law Dork — and my independent legal journalism — by upgrading to a paid subscription today.

You can become a paid subscriber to Law Dork for as little as $6 a month or $60 a year. It’s important. Paid subscriptions make it so that I can keep doing this work — work that I do so well and that needs to be done.

In addition to my in-person coverage of the Supreme Court, Law Dork has broken national news about judicial ethics over the past year — involving Justice Sam Alito’s beer stock trades and U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor’s Elon Musk-entangled investment history. I also brought you extensive coverage that you’ll only find at Law Dork of a judge-shopping investigation in Alabama targeting LGBTQ civil rights lawyers and the challenges to the Biden administration’s Title IX sex discrimination rule.

Support this essential work by upgrading and becoming a paid subscriber to Law Dork now.

The legal news is not going to slow down, either. Throughout it all, Law Dork will be here. I will bring you the latest — going where the news takes me, providing you with my informed analysis, and (of course) making sure that you have access to the documents that are central to the cases and other stories I am covering.

As I’ve said before, I do understand that not everyone can afford a paid subscription. Because of that, my news reports — everything I’ve written about above — has been open to all, whether you’ve paid or not.

But, if you can afford an annual subscription — $60 — think of it as paying ahead for the upcoming term’s Supreme Court coverage. Or the next year of LGBTQ coverage, election law coverage, my coverage of the litigation surrounding executions, the post-Roe landscape. All of it.

Finally, those who sign up for a paid subscription today will get access to special features like The Law Dork Nine — a new interview is coming out Wednesday — and my regular weekend feature, “Closing my tabs.” They’re my way of saying that I see and appreciate your contribution to make Law Dork possible.

Again, to all of you, thank you for helping to make this place what it has become. I am, truly, so grateful.

- Chris