Rugger briefed journalists in October 2021: Covering the Supreme Court.

Todd Ruger is a senior legal affairs staff writer at CQ and Roll Call, covering the Supreme Court, Congress and the Justice Department. He has covered four Supreme Court confirmation battles and wrote about the Supreme Court’s 2017-18 term in a book, “American Justice 2018: The Shifting Supreme Court.” Before joining CQ in 2014, he covered Congress for The National Law Journal and Legal Times. He covered state and federal courts for daily newspapers in Iowa, Illinois and Florida before coming to Washington in 2012, including death penalty and civil fraud cases while at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. A Denver native, Todd graduated from Drake University in Iowa.