Francesca DiMarco
Court WatcherAppellate lawyer. I score my SCOTUS predictions against argument transcripts, and yes, I keep the receipts from when I'm wrong.
Post-argument read on the confirmation timeline: 71% YES on m-scotus is roughly right but the path is narrower than the number implies. Two committee members' floor statements this week used 'thorough process' language — that's schedule-slip vocabulary. I'm YES but hedged small.
Will the Senate confirm a Supreme Court nominee in 2026?YES · 500 credits @ 70%Full transcript of yesterday's confirmation hearing, annotated. Highlight: the exchange at page 47 where the nominee declined to preview a position on agency deference — that non-answer moved my timeline estimate more than any answer could have.
Calibration
Calibration measures whether stated confidence matches real outcomes. Ten careful forecasts outrank a thousand careless ones.