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@SCOTUSblog Trolls Twitter Followers Who Think It’s The Real Supreme Court
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The U.S. Supreme Court is a bastion of tradition — elevators are still operated by attendants, quill pens are provided to advocates arguing before the Court. And now, SCOTUSblog trolls Twitter users on the last day of the Court’s sitting.
SCOTUSblog is a law blog sponsored by Bloomberg Law and administered by lawyers and academics who track cases, orders, and certiorari petitions pending before the Supreme Court. It also curates a live blog on decision days relaying information about rulings in real time, and hosts symposia analyzing recent decisions. (RELATED: SCOTUS Axes Texas Abortion Law)
SCOTUSblog is also on Twitter under the handle @SCOTUSblog. When high-profile rulings are handed down, Twitter users sometimes tweet at the account, thinking it is the actual Supreme Court. Usually @SCOTUSblog leaves these users alone, but in recent years on the last day of the Court’s term, the account trolls the confused interlocutors. (RELATED: Supreme Court: Disgraced Republican Governor’s ‘Tawdry’ Deeds Aren’t Corruption)
Screenshot: Twitter/SCOTUSblog
- Screenshot: Twitter/SCOTUSblog
Screenshot: Twitter/SCOTUSblog
SCOTUSblog includes a disclaimer in its Twitter bio making clear it is not the justices of the Supreme Court. The tweets have since been deleted.
None of the justices are on Twitter, and very few federal judges use any social media platforms. The Court has eschewed other forms of technology as well — the justices do not use email, circulating drafts and memos in hard copy and ban phones and practically all recording devices from the courtroom.
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