Tom Goldstein
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"Thomas C. Goldstein", known as simply "Tom Goldstein", is an American attorney famous as an advocate before and blogger about the Supreme Court of the United States. He was a founding partner of Goldstein and Howe, a Washington, D.C. firm specializing in Supreme Court of the United States/Supreme Court litigation, and was, until the end of 2010, a partner at Akin Gump, where he was co-head of the litigation and Supreme Court practices. In 2003, he co-founded SCOTUSblog, the most widely read blog covering the Supreme Court, and remains the publisher and occasional contributor, providing analyses and summaries of Supreme Court decisions and Certiorari/cert petitions. Tom teaches Supreme Court Litigation at Harvard Law School and previously taught at Stanford Law School as well from 2004-2012.

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Across the board there are disappointments. The stakes remain high, there are still many 5-4 votes, but he has been successful keeping the individual battles from turning into larger wars.

Journalists, by and large, are not as good as they should be in keeping up with what happens after a large verdict — even though they know full well from experience that the verdict will most likely be cut dramatically. There surely is less of an attention span than there should be.

The President can believe in his heart of hearts that he is picking a conservative nominee, and he can be surprised.

Abortion will definitely be on the front burner of the Supreme Court for the first time in many years.

A broad ruling could dramatically change the power of states to attract investments with tax incentives.

Because they are a court that can only act through the vote of five people agreeing on something, even people who have very diverse views about the law ultimately do have to come together.

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