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.