This Monday, like each “first Monday in October” since 1917, the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court will take their seats on the bench for the start of their new term. 

Welcome to this inaugural 2023-2024 edition of “The Supreme Court Brief,” in which I am gearing up for my first full term of Supreme Court coverage for The National Law Journal after coming aboard ALM in April. (“Coming back aboard” is perhaps more appropriate given that I started my legal reporting career here years ago.)