Bonus 97: The Supreme Court's Website

There's a lot to like about the Court's online presence. There are also some easy (to implement, anyway) ways to make it even better.

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For today’s bonus issue, I wanted to write a bit about an increasingly important means by which the Supreme Court communicates to the public—the Court’s website. Maybe you haven’t spent much time poking around it; maybe, like me, you have. But especially as the Court is making more and more news outside of its usual routine, the website (the primary means by which it communicates the overwhelming majority of its rulings) has become only that much more important. To that end, today’s bonus post flags three things I really like about the website; and three things that I’d love to see the website do differently—and that shouldn’t be that difficult, at least logistically, to implement.

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