A Thank You Note re Yesterday

By Tom Goldstein
on Jun 28, 2005 at 4:06 pm

I just wanted to thank the people who worked very hard to get accurate, timely posts up on the blog yesterday; the bloggers (esp., but not exclusively, Eugene Volokh, Glenn Reynolds, Andrew Sullivan, Howard Bashman, and the folks at ABC’s The Note) that prominently linked to the blog; and the readers who brought us a record (for us) 92,000 hits according to Statcounter (and who nearly brought down our webhost at around 1015am).

Also, I wanted to thank all the terrific people who took the time to write wonderful posts on the Discussion Blog. I learned a lot.

I do think in a very small way, but a hopefully significant one, the web (lots of sites, SCOTUSblog among them) changed the Court’s relationship with the public yesterday — both in terms of how information is distributed and how the Court’s opinions are subject to a quick, sophisticated reaction. I can’t imagine the same thing happening even a year ago.