Supreme Court litigator convicted of tax evasion over income from high-stakes poker

A federal jury found SCOTUSblog co-founder Thomas Goldstein guilty of 12 of 16 counts after a 6-week trial in Maryland

WASHINGTON — A prominent Supreme Court litigator who also published a popular blog about the nation’s highest court was convicted Wednesday of tax evasion and related charges stemming from his secretive lifestyle as an ultra-high-stakes poker player.

A federal jury found SCOTUSblog co-founder Thomas Goldstein guilty of 12 of 16 counts after a six-week trial in Greenbelt, Maryland. Jurors deliberated for approximately two days before convicting Goldstein of one count of tax evasion, four of eight counts of aiding and

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