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Famed Supreme Court Advocate Retires, Citing High Court's Problematic Conservative 'Supermajority'

He may be leaving the Supreme Court Bar, but he won't be leaving the law entirely.

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Supreme Court Day Staci Zaretsky

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[There’s] very little that an advocate for the little guy can hope to accomplish anymore. Once it got to a six-member supermajority, so that even if you could find the path to picking up a conservative vote, you were still going to lose, it was just a very, very different ball game.

— Tom Goldstein, a renowned Supreme Court advocate and founder of SCOTUSblog, in comments given to Bloomberg Law on what guided his decision to retire from his Supreme Court practice, and his firm. Goldstein, who has argued more than 40 cases before the high court, will continue to run SCOTUSblog, and will not give up the practice of law entirely. “I’m not joining another law firm,” he said. “Instead, I’m interested in pursuing business opportunities; I’m an entrepreneur at heart.”

Staci ZaretskyStaci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.

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