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State supreme courts in the United States

State supreme courts in the United States

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Sep 1, 2026

Jim JordanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
55:12
You think maybe it has something to do with their partisanship, why they don't want to join?
speaker_26UNKNOWN
55:16
Well, I think that's the reason you're seeing state Supreme Courts moving away from having the ABA act as the gatekeeper for lawyers to be able to sit for
Jim JordanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
55:23
their seat.
Jim JordanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
55:23
Several states are doing that, right? Tennessee, Texas, Florida say, we don't want these guys who can't even tell us that they want our ally to win a war.
Frank DeVitoHOST
12:32
But put that aside, these statutes, this reasoning just doesn't prove a constitutional right.
Frank DeVitoHOST
12:39
The court points to several state Supreme Courts that have discovered such a right in their state constitutions, but these are not grounded in history and tradition.
Frank DeVitoHOST
12:49
I think you have to point this out.
Frank DeVitoHOST
12:50
Like, They point to three or four, I think, constitutional cases that say, yes, life of the mother is constitutionally protected abortion.
Jerod TufteGUEST
6:28
And so I think it's just having enough of the conceptual knowledge of how the tools work in order to steer them in a way that non-technical people sometimes, they don't understand what's going on behind the hood, so they don't quite see the failure modes.
Bridget McCormickHOST
6:40
I had the pleasure of hearing Justice Tufte present to a number of judges and justices from other state Supreme Courts and from some of the federal courts at a Rodell Fellowship and talk about what he's built with these tools for his own workflows.
Bridget McCormickHOST
6:53
And I wonder, would you just describe a little bit how you're using the AI tools for your workflows in your chambers and what benefits you're seeing as a result?
Jerod TufteGUEST
7:03
Yeah.

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Bridget McCormickHOST
14:06
I mean, we're seeing lots of early evidence of that.
Bridget McCormickHOST
14:09
There's that PACER study of the increased filings.
Bridget McCormickHOST
14:12
And then like you, I'm hearing it anecdotally from my friends on state Supreme Courts who all say they're seeing really an increase in filings, not only from self-represented parties, but like you said, from lawyers as well.
Bridget McCormickHOST
14:23
Lawyers not only can take cases that they couldn't have made work economically before, but they also are filing more pleadings within each case because it's easier to do that.
Jim JordanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
55:42
You think maybe it has something to do with their partisanship, why they don't want to
speaker_26SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
55:45
join? Well, I think that's the reason you're seeing state Supreme Courts moving away from having the ABA act as the gatekeeper for lawyers to be able to sit for
Jim JordanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
55:52
their state.
Jim JordanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
55:52
Several states are doing that, right? Tennessee, Texas, Florida say, we don't want these guys who can't even tell us that they want our ally to win a war.
Ari BermanGUEST
73:43
And there were some efforts by Democrats to fight back, most notably in California, but some of those were thrown out by the courts.
Ari BermanGUEST
73:50
And so there's been this total asymmetry in the process where basically the Supreme Court and Republican-dominated state Supreme Courts have allowed Republicans to gerrymander everywhere.
Ari BermanGUEST
74:02
But you have the US Supreme Court blocking efforts by Democrats to redistrict.
Ari BermanGUEST
74:08
And then you also have state Supreme Courts.
Ari BermanGUEST
74:10
And the crazy thing is what happened in Virginia, where you had a referendum that was passed by the voters to redistrict thrown out by the courts.
Ari BermanGUEST
74:19
And that was amazing because All of these Republican-controlled states, not a single one was approved by the voters.

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