Posted by Eugene Volokh:
<a href="http://www.sctnomination.com/blog/";>The Supreme Court Nomination
Blog</a>:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2005_06_05-2005_06_11.shtml#1118269451
This is the blog put up by Goldstein & Howe, a major Supreme Court
litigation boutique and the operator of [1]SCOTUSblog. My question:
How influential is the blog likely to be during the Supreme Court
nomination season?
My conjecture: Very. I don't know how many hits it will get, but I
suspect that:
1. Most journalists who are covering the debates, and politicos
involved in the debates, will check it routinely, and will be
influenced to some extent by what is written there.
2. People who want to influence the debate will dearly love to get
their points picked up by the G&H bloggers.
3. As with all editors and reporters, the bloggers will occasionally
have opportunities to influence the process, for instance by
deciding what to stress, what things to cover more than other
things, what to investigate further, when to post certain things,
and so on; it will be up to the G&H people to decide whether they
want to use the opportunities, and how much.
Of course, this raises another point: What other Supreme Court
Nomination Blogs will there be out there? And how will they persuade
reporters and politicos to read them, as well as the G&H blog?
References
1. http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/
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