Live Blogging a Supreme Court Justice

by Tony Hung

We’ve all seen live blogging at a tech conference, or even live commenting (Liz Strauss, I’m looking at you — every tuesday!), but how about live blogging at a presentation by a Supreme Court Justice of the United States, Antonin Scalia?

Well, its true.

A Yale student got on his laptop and live-blogged the whole thing, from his comments to the question and answer portion of the talk; pretty fascinating stuff — if you’re interested in originalist philosophy of constitutional interpretation that is.

But a great example of a fairly techy-aspect of blogging going outside of the techosphere.

And of course if you are a law-blogger … well, enjoy!

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  1. By Liz Strauss posted on November 12, 2006 at 4:52 pm
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    Whoa! That is so cool!!

  2. By Liz Strauss posted on November 12, 2006 at 4:52 pm
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    Whoa! That is so cool!!

  3. By Tony posted on November 12, 2006 at 10:37 pm
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    So cool you had to say it twice! :)

    I guess you never know who’s blogging in the audience these days.

    I heard that they hold all of their … whatever it is they do … “in camera”, and that there are no cameras inside the Supreme Court.

    So, I guess it is pretty cool. ;)