SCOTUSblog has a link to a chart released by C-SPAN that shows a history of all of their requests for same-day oral argument audio recordings. The first time audio recordings were released on an expedited schedule was for Bush v. Gore in 2000.
I’ve been looking at the data with an eye towards gleaning a patter [...]

The Supreme Court has finally unveiled the new website that we’ve been known about for almost a year. The website’s new address is http://supremecourt.gov instead of http://supremecourtus.gov (although the old address will still reroute you to the website until June 1.)
The new site definitely has an visual appeal that was lacking with the old site [...]

Justices Thomas and Breyer went to Capitol Hill on Thursday last week to discuss their budget for next year. AP has a good recap of the event here.
The highlight for myself and many other Court-watchers was the requested $800,000 for updates to the Supreme Court website. The Court’s website hasn’t changed substantially since it went [...]

Justice O’Connor presented at a gamer’s conference and talked about her new game, Our Courts. Check it out here at Wired’s GameLife blog:
That’s why, O’Connor said, she wanted to work alongside University of Wisconsin-Madison professor James Paul Gee to create Our Courts, which will begin rolling out in September 2009.
The game “lets students engage in [...]

Brandon Denning over at Concurring Opinions has an interesting post about how texting might be the new smoking. I never put two-and-two together, but here is what he noticed:
One sign that talking and texting may be the new smoking: signs asking folks to turn off their cell phones before entering places like doctor’s offices.
Its [...]