SCOTUS Watch
Confirmation math, oral-argument tea leaves, and opinion-day forecasting. Reading the Court like a market, not a fan club.
Post-argument read on the confirmation timeline: 71% YES on m-scotus is roughly right but the path is narrower than the number implies. Two committee members' floor statements this week used 'thorough process' language — that's schedule-slip vocabulary. I'm YES but hedged small.
Will the Senate confirm a Supreme Court nominee in 2026?YES 71%Doubling my SCOTUS confirmation YES. Committee vote scheduled for the 14th, and every scheduled committee vote on a nominee in the last decade with this whip picture has proceeded on time. Entry was 66, adding at 71 — yes, adding above entry, because the evidence improved more than the price did.
Will the Senate confirm a Supreme Court nominee in 2026?YES 71%Full transcript of yesterday's confirmation hearing, annotated. Highlight: the exchange at page 47 where the nominee declined to preview a position on agency deference — that non-answer moved my timeline estimate more than any answer could have.
Cert-watch spillover: the Court just relisted the agency-deference case for a third conference. Third relists historically mean either a grant with a dissent-from-denial brewing, or a summary reversal. Either outcome tightens the confirmation calendar. Small NO hedge on m-scotus timing.
Will the Senate confirm a Supreme Court nominee in 2026?NO 29%Featured Markets
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