SCOTUSblog media bias and reliability
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place SCOTUSblog in the centre. We have seen it on 9 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is SCOTUSblog biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place SCOTUSblog in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is SCOTUSblog left or right?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place SCOTUSblog in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is SCOTUSblog reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for SCOTUSblog are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What SCOTUSblog has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with SCOTUSblog’s own report linked underneath.
The Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration's request to enforce new U.S. Postal Service mail ballot regulations ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The court's order leaves in place a lower court injunction blocking the rules.
SCOTUSblog reported it asTrump blasts Supreme Court on social media (opens SCOTUSblog in a new tab)
The Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration's request to enforce new U.S. Postal Service mail ballot regulations ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The court's order leaves in place a lower court injunction blocking the rules.
SCOTUSblog reported it asSupreme Court denies Trump administration’s request to implement parts of rule on mail-in voting (opens SCOTUSblog in a new tab)
Opponents of Missouri's new congressional map have appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. This follows a federal appeals panel's decision to let a new map stand, sending the dispute back to the nation's highest court.
SCOTUSblog reported it asMissouri congressional redistricting dispute returns to the Supreme Court (opens SCOTUSblog in a new tab)
Over 250 current and former members of Congress have urged the US Supreme Court to deny a request to pause a ruling blocking parts of a USPS mail-in voting rule. They argue the rule and a related executive order unconstitutionally infringe on Congress's authority over federal elections.
SCOTUSblog reported it asStates, civic groups urge Supreme Court to leave order in place prohibiting Trump administration from implementing parts of mail-in ballot rule (opens SCOTUSblog in a new tab)
The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to reject a federal judge's order that halts new rules for mail-in voting. The appeal comes as North Carolina prepares to send out mail ballots, with a whistleblower report warning the new rules could prevent millions of ballots from being sent.
SCOTUSblog reported it asTrump administration asks Supreme Court to clear the way for it to implement new mail-in voting rule (opens SCOTUSblog in a new tab)
The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to reject a federal judge's order that halts new rules for mail-in voting. The appeal comes as North Carolina prepares to send out mail ballots, with a whistleblower report warning the new rules could prevent millions of ballots from being sent.
SCOTUSblog reported it asTrump administration asks Supreme Court to clear the way for new mail-in voting rule to be implemented (opens SCOTUSblog in a new tab)
Democratic-controlled states have filed a new lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's executive order that seeks to limit mail voting in the midterm elections. The suit targets new U.S. Postal Service rules that require federal approval for mail ballot envelope designs and a list of eligible voters.
SCOTUSblog reported it asThe ripple effects of SCOTUS’ mail-in voting decision (opens SCOTUSblog in a new tab)
The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether construction of Donald Trump’s 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom can proceed after a preservation group sued, arguing the project violates federal law. The administration claims it is a military complex exempt from congressional approval.
SCOTUSblog reported it asTrump administration awaits emergency docket decisions (opens SCOTUSblog in a new tab)
More than two dozen Texas families, represented by civil liberties groups, have petitioned the US Supreme Court to block a state law requiring public school classrooms to display a Protestant version of the Ten Commandments. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals previously ruled the law does not violate the First Amendment.
SCOTUSblog reported it asTexas families ask Supreme Court to take up challenge to Ten Commandments in schools (opens SCOTUSblog in a new tab)
The U.S. Supreme Court on 17 August 2026 declined for the second time to hear Donald Trump’s appeal of a $5 million jury verdict in favour of writer E. Jean Carroll. The decision leaves intact a 2023 finding that Trump sexually abused and defamed Carroll in the 1990s.
SCOTUSblog reported it asCourt turns down Trump’s request to reconsider its refusal to hear Carroll suit against him (opens SCOTUSblog in a new tab)
An appellate court ordered construction halted on Donald Trump’s White House ballroom, ruling Congress must authorise it. Trump now calls the $400m project a 'military complex' and has asked the Supreme Court to intervene, citing security threats.
SCOTUSblog reported it asEmergency docket heats up (opens SCOTUSblog in a new tab)
The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to reject a federal judge's order that halts new rules for mail-in voting. The appeal comes as North Carolina prepares to send out mail ballots, with a whistleblower report warning the new rules could prevent millions of ballots from being sent.
SCOTUSblog reported it asTrump administration urges Supreme Court to issue a decision in mail-in voting dispute (opens SCOTUSblog in a new tab)
Who says so
3 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
Very high factuality
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
- Dispatch Media, Inc.Media Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Official site
- scotusblog.com
- Seen publishing on
- scotusblog.com
- Access
- Free to read
- Wikipedia
- Entry
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 9
- Reports listed
- 12
- We could read
- 1
- First seen
- 12 August 2026
11 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 1 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. SCOTUSblog is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 9 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of SCOTUSblog: its report arrived a median of 23 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 27 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 20 September 2026. Ratings pulled 11 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as SCOTUSblog, also publishing from United States, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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