Who is Scotus?

Scotus Blog Blog covers the U.S. Supreme Court, providing commentary and features on the court, its daily business and decisions.

The blog is written by attorneys and law students and is funded by Akin Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, a Washington, D.C. law firm specializing in the Supreme Court. ScotusBlog’s founder and publisher, Tom Goldstein, is a partner at Akin Gump and the blog has given him a high profile. He has been quoted in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today and other publications and has appeared on CNN, Fox News and other television news outlets.

Who is reading Scotus?

Scotus Blog was born in 2002 and is read by 75,000 people per month. The site gained national attention with its coverage of the court’s decision in 2007 to hear Guantanamo Bay prisoners’ challenge to the Military Commission tribunals. Scotus Blog was recommended by Business Week in 2007 and has received favorable reviews from legal publications, including the American Bar Association’s ABA Journal.

What is Scotus blogging about?

Posts include reviews an examination of Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court , a post on the U.S. appeal of a federal court decision to end the moratorium on deep water drilling on the Gulf of Mexico, and a reminder that Judge John Paul Stevens last day prior to retiring was quickly approaching.

Among Scotus Blog’s most popular postings was “Court: A Constitutional Right to a Gun” in 2008 in which the court ruled that the Second Amendment did protect an individuals right to own a gun.

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