Justice Sotomayor Unfairly Slams #SCOTUS Press Corps

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Sotomayor also took a swipe at media coverage of the court. “I pick up a newspaper half an hour after we’ve issued a decision,” she said, “and they’re writing about what we’ve done wrong, and half the time they’re saying things we haven’t done. They’re writing before they’ve even read the thing. And so that’s a dangerous way to assume that the Supreme Court is doing this.”

I assume she means she’s read a story online rather than read a newspaper one half hour after an opinion issues. But in any case this is not my experience with SCOTUS press coverage at all. It is usually careful and fair, and filled in as time goes on, balancing need for speed with desire for nuance.

More generally, I deal with a lot of reporters and I find that, on average, Supreme Court reporters are much more knowledgeable about the subjects they are covering than other reporters.

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