The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., June 18, 2026. Inset: Judge Todd(Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa William S. Richardson School of Law)

The Court’s critics aren’t sending their best.

The problem these days isn’t just that the Supreme Court has critics. It’s that so many of them are lacking any sort of rigor or perspective, and many of them outright mislead their audiences. Sadly, this describes not just overheated writers but senior elected public officials, candidates for major office, and even prominent members of the judiciary. For those of us who explain the Court’s work, defend the overall approach of the post-2020 Roberts Court, and seek to reasonably critique its shortcomings, this is a source of endless frustration.

The current poster boy for juvenile tantrum-throwing is Todd Eddins:

The Court that

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