On January 16, 2025, Goldstein was indicted in Maryland federal court on charges he schemed to evade taxes for years and used funds from his boutique law firm to cover gambling debts and fraudulently hiring female employees with whom he was having intimate personal relationship, allowing them to obtain health insurance.

It also won the 2013 Society of Professional Journalists (Sigma Delta Chi) prize for deadline reporting for its coverage of the Supreme Court's healthcare ruling.

In 2010, SCOTUSblog became the only weblog to receive the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award[11] for fostering public understanding of the law.

While generally regarded as objective, the blog (and Goldstein) on occasion is the subject of criticism from commentators on both the left and the right (such as Ed Whelan).

On January 16, 2025, Goldstein was indicted in Maryland federal court on charges he schemed to evade taxes for years and used funds from his boutique law firm to cover gambling debts.

[12] He also allegedly created fake employment arrangements with at least a dozen women he had personal, intimate relationships with, paying them hundreds of thousands of dollars and providing health insurance through his firm, despite little or no work being performed.

[8] In 2024, Goldstein authored an op-ed in the New York Times where he called for an end to criminal cases against Donald Trump.