Amid a series of high-profile cases and mounting ethics concerns, the way the Supreme Court is covered may be changing.
Lithwick’s essay was published as part of a weeklong Slate series called Disorder in the Court, aimed at “taking apart the idea that justices should be out of bounds, that they’re untouchable. They’re people, and they’re impacting our daily lives,” says editor in chiefthat she and Lithwick started thinking about afterDobbs
has been way different than many other Supreme Court cases,” says Matthews. “How to bring that energy into the rest of what we were doing really was one of the main missions” of Slate’s expanded coverage, says Matthews. The eighth season of Slate’s populartraces Thomas’s “surprising path from youthful radical to conservative icon,” a story that Slate decided to tell without knowing how timely the news cycle would make it.
“I do feel like for many years there was a kind of literalism to the Supreme Court coverage,” says Gerstein, who notes that very few hours of the Supreme Court’s activities take place in public each year. “It needs to be covered in a more comprehensive way: What are they doing after work? Who’s meeting with them during the day?” Politico’s leakedopinion, says Gerstein, “was a wake-up call to much of the journalistic enterprise that they needed to refocus more resources on that.
But the high court doesn’t make it easy. “The Supreme Court rigidly controls access to the building, which until the pandemic was the only way to hear oral argument without waiting months. Even holders of ‘hard passes,’ meaning the daily reporters who get the good seats and assigned cubicles in the pressroom, depend on the Court’s good will for access,”tells me.
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