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The SCOTUS beat couple team has been very busy lately

Every time the Supreme Court submits an important opinion, tens of thousands of people follow the same virtual location, the SCOTUS blog.

A website 20 years ago sounds exactly like that. A blog that works on just one thing: the Supreme Court's comprehensive coverage. Lawyers, reporters, TV anchors, and professionals monitor live blogs on the site for court announcements and jump into the news. In fact, on Thursday, the site's servers struggled to keep up with all the traffic.

SCOTUSblog has a rare combination of traits, such as cult-like status, hard-earned credibility, and widespread respect for the news throughout the world.

This site was founded by Tom Goldstein and Amy Howe, a marital team that cares deeply about the judiciary department. (We'll talk more about this later.) Now they can feel a particular interest in court.

"I think June of this year is definitely unique in that we wait for some decisions that we expect to be truly historic," Howe said. I told me on Wednesday. "We are waiting for a potentially huge decision on abortion and gun rights, along with some other high-profile cases of religion and the environment, and a draft opinion on the Mississippi abortion case last month. The leak caused the public to really concentrate and turned their attention to the court in a way I had never experienced before. "

(While Howe runs a live blog, the gun rights ruling was communicated Thursday morning. The court will give further opinion on Friday.)

Howe, the closest similarity to 2022, will be a court decision in 2012 on an affordable care law that upholds an individual's obligations as a tax. The SCOTUSblog was thencreditedas the first press to report that the law was upheld.

That day, traffic was off the chart. There is nothing comparable to that. But this term is very active. Traffic in June of this year is "significantly higher than at the same time in the last five years," Howe said.

Indeed, during the court announcement on Thursday morning, SCOTUSblog said, "The site may be delayed or failing to load some users due to heavy traffic. I'm working on fixing the problem. "

Goldstein later stated that the site was "attacked" by a digital villain. "It happened in the year of ACA," he said.

Public Service Model

"Since its establishment in 2002, the SCOTUS blog has evolved into an excellent source of Supreme Court news, commentary and research." Bob Ambrogi of Law Sites said. wrote last year

There is a rare business model in the blog. So there aren't many business models at all.

Goldstein & Russell, P.C.'s partner Goldstein, has filed dozens of proceedings in front of the judge. He sees the SCOTUS blog as a "public service" and tells me it's not a commercial venture. In fact, it employs a few full-time staff, losing about $ 400,000 a year. "But that has a little indirect impact on my reputation as a lawyer," he said. He pondered the subscription model, but said, "We haven't seen the people we want to educate most make payment decisions."

I asked Howe how the SCOTUS blog has evolved over the last 20 years. This is because all other facts about the Internet changed during that period.

"Like everyone else, blogging focuses on publishing stories quickly, even if they aren't as fast as many news sites," she said. rice field. "And while many blog readers are lawyers and law students, I tried to give the general public as much access as possible to my coverage."

Accuracy and clarity are always the most. An important attribute, it transforms your site into a destination that people find reliable.

Over the years, the site has expanded to platforms such as Twitter, TikTok, and the Podcast Universe. "It's good online that there are more ways to educate the general public about courts," Howe said.

Reasons to make this Supreme Court term unique

In addition to the blockbuster case and the unprecedented leak, the term "something else" It's happening, "CNN's Ariane de Vogue said in" The Lead "the other day. There is a fence around the courthouse, security details are assigned to judges, and there is a political atmosphere of being digital rather than face-to-face.

"Usually at the end of June, we go to court,"de Vogue said."Judges come out behind the crimson curtain and they read the opinion of the big case of the term and the dissenting opinion. That won't happen this time. On the surface, in the court itself. It's closed because of one Covid. I'm just going to get these main opinions, the shape of society, over the internet without the judge explaining. This is unprecedented. But it is also a symbol of these difficult times. "