In the last decades, populist parties have increased their success in many countries. In many of these cases, we can observe that populist politicians attack high courts verbally or undermine judicial independence through court-curbing or -packing. While we know that populism is incompatible with independent high courts, we know much less about how high courts react to the threat that the rise of populist parties poses to them. To my best knowledge, this is the first paper to examine court reactions to the rise of populism. By increasing their public relations efforts high courts can ensure that the public is informed about their decision and why it was taken. I study whether decisions are accompanied by a press release more often if a law under review was legislated by a populist government relying on an original dataset of press releases by the Austrian and Italian Constitutional Court. In further analyses, I examine whether the language used in press releases is easier to understand when high courts face populist parties.