Welcome to The Marble Palace Blog. I am Tony Mauro, and I have covered the Supreme Court since 1979 and for ALM since 2000. I retired in 2019, but in 2021 I launched a blog focusing on the court’s history and mysteries, its quirks and its clerks, among other topics. I welcome tips and comments at [email protected].
With the passing of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in 2023, and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2020, the Supreme Court’s first female Supreme Court justices are gone—but not forgotten.

Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg (left) and Sandra Day O’Connor during an event at the National Museum of Women in the Arts honoring O’Connor with the Seneca Women Global Leadership Award on April 15, 2015. (Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM)


