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Slate / Dahlia Lithwick / May 22, 2023
“SCOTUS should not only become a national news story when a Justice says something snappy that goes viral at arguments. The best time to pay attention is not just during the last two weeks in June. But this is how the court has been covered historically, which is why we are living through a boom moment of outsiders gobbling up the scoops. They think we’re sleepy junior varsity law professors who forgot to hold power to account. We think they’re gossipy low-information neighbors.”
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