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| Not just Pierre & Carlos: Secret Twitter Accounts for Comey, Supreme Court Justice & Clerks |
| 2019-10-27 |
| [WashingtonTimes] Former FBI Director James Comey, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and, of course, disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner, who called himself “Carlos Danger,” sought refuge in private social media accounts. Ms. Feinberg previously outed Mr. Comey’s hidden Instagram account, formerly “@reinholdniebuhr” after Mr. Comey hinted at having both a private Twitter and Instagram account where he monitored social media chatter. Justice Breyer began using a hidden Twitter account nearly a decade ago. He told the House Appropriations Committee in 2011 that he had set up a private account to keep tabs on the political unrest in Iran. “The open secret of Supreme Court advocacy in a digital era” is that the new way to argue in front of the justices is to reach them online via such avenues as blogs, podcasts, and social media posts, they wrote in the Cornell Law Review. Mr. Fisher and Ms. Orr Larsen studied the Twitter habits of Supreme Court law clerks who help craft the justices’ decisions and thinking, and found the clerks’ social media habits had a definite impact. “In particular, we show that the Twitter patterns of law clerks indicate they are paying close attention to producers of virtual briefing, and threads of these arguments (proposed and developed online) are starting to appear in the court’s decisions,” wrote Mr. Fisher and Ms. Orr Larsen for Cornell Law Review in 2019. “We argue that this ‘crowdsourcing’ dynamic to Supreme Court decision-making is at least worth a serious pause. … The confines of the adversarial process have been around for centuries, and there are significant risks that come with operating outside of it, particularly given the unique nature and speed of online discussions.” |
| Posted by:Lex |
| #2 I will say this. I don't use my name on Twitter... |
| Posted by: 3dc 2019-10-27 15:34 |
#1 C'mon, man - a little teaser first - the Examiner has way too many annoying popups; I'm not gonna read an article with all that crap hitting me.
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| Posted by: Raj 2019-10-27 10:39 |