The High Court Report

Interview: How Adam Feldman Predicted the Trump Tariff Cases Ruling


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Dr. Adam Feldman called it before the Court released it. His 25-year dataset — 1,700+ cases — flagged the timing before anyone else caught on. The High Court Report sits down with Dr. Feldman to break down exactly what the numbers revealed.

In this episode:

Why 107 days and six separate opinions directly predict each other — and what that pattern means for the 48 cases still ahead.

How one dataset predicted the Trump Tariff ruling's timing, complexity, and doctrinal fractures before the Court said a word.

Why the Court now pushes more than half its rulings into June — and what Trump's emergency application surge does to that trend.

Whether the Court's faster pace this term marks real change — or a one-year blip.

About Dr. Adam Feldman:

Founder of Empirical SCOTUS. Statistics Editor at SCOTUSblog. Head of legal analytics firm Empirilaw. J.D., UC Berkeley. Ph.D. in Political Science, USC. Post-doctoral fellow, Columbia Law School. Author of 15 peer-reviewed articles. Former trial lawyer.

Reach Adam Feldman via:

  1. LinkedIn: Here;
  2. Empirical SCOTUS: Here;
  3. Legalytics: Here;
  4. Empirilaw: Here.

Adam Feldman's Work:

  1. The Supreme Court’s Vanishing Fall Docket: How Decision Timing Has Transformed Since 2000 (Jan. 26, 2026), available at: https://legalytics.substack.com/p/the-supreme-courts-vanishing-fall?utm_source=publication-search
  2. The $133 Billion Question: Inside the Supreme Court’s Historic Tariff Case (Feb. 6, 2026), available at: https://legalytics.substack.com/p/the-133-billion-question-inside-the?utm_source=publication-search

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