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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 11:47 AM Jun 2014

Leading Supreme Court Blog Barred From Supreme Court

JUN 23, 2014 7:00PM ET / POLITICS

ADAM CHANDLER

Is getting a law degree worthless? Maybe if you're trying to cover the Supreme Court.

This afternoon, SCOTUSblog, one of the leading news sources on the cases and goings on at the United States Supreme Court was again denied permission to report on their bread and butter. The Standing Committee of Correspondents of the Senate Press Gallery reaffirmed the rejection of the site's petition for a press credential.

WVSCBlog @WVSCBlog

The Web's best source for news on the US Supreme Court, bar none, @SCOTUSblog, *denied* press credential to cover it. http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/06/the-walls-erected-by-traditional-media/
2:19 PM - 23 Jun 2014


The love for SCOTUSblog continued to run deep with the Washington Post hailing it as "the most important and valuable source of news and analysis about the Supreme Court."

So what gives? Well, the rationale was that the site's publisher, Tom Goldstein, is a lawyer who lobbies the government. He also occasionally writes for his site. SCOTUSblog reporters are not allowed to write about cases that his firm is involved in.

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http://www.thewire.com/politics/2014/06/leading-supreme-court-blog-denied-press-credential-for-having-law-experience/373265/
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Leading Supreme Court Blog Barred From Supreme Court (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2014 OP
Law Degree 4Q2u2 Jun 2014 #1
Barring cameras from the Supreme Court helps them keep control of the spin control. It is Fred Sanders Jun 2014 #2
 

4Q2u2

(1,406 posts)
1. Law Degree
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 11:50 AM
Jun 2014

I seems that some of the Law Degrees of the judges are worthless becasue they never use them.
Or it could be professional jealousy, Roberts does not like people who tell the truth.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
2. Barring cameras from the Supreme Court helps them keep control of the spin control. It is
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 11:56 AM
Jun 2014

all part of the lack of transparency they want for themselves, but not for others....cameras in the courtroom, every appellate courtroom is only rational in a free and democratic society.

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