High School SCOTUS Visits Lawfare
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Anna Salvatore is the impresario behind the High School SCOTUS blog. She got in touch with Benjamin Wittes a number of months ago asking for an interview, and produced a fascinating character study of him. On Tuesday, Ben returned the favor. Anna joined Ben in the Jungle Studio for a wide-ranging discussion of the Supreme Court, high school, blogging, and building an army to produce legal journalism. They talked about how the Supreme Court is different from baseball, weird interests in high school, following a docket, and the Kavanaugh nomination hearings.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains advertising. |
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| 0:22.0 | rational security, chatter, law fair no bull, and the aftermath. |
| 0:30.0 | What makes a good high school school skirt is nerd? |
| 0:36.0 | Well, I knew none of the kids who have joined my blog before they reached out to me. |
| 0:41.0 | All of them, except for one who I found on Twitter, |
| 0:44.0 | has emailed my blog through the About page, |
| 0:47.0 | just said who they were, what they'd be interested in writing about. |
| 0:50.0 | And I've just said yes. |
| 0:52.0 | I couldn't believe kids wanted to write for my blog. |
| 0:54.0 | It still feels like a tiny little thing that I worked on on, |
| 0:58.0 | like Thursday afternoons. |
| 1:00.0 | But these really impressive kids who have really done a lot more law oriented things than I have. |
| 1:06.0 | Kids who are on the debate team, who are in the student government, |
| 1:10.0 | who are really just impressive kids in general have reached out to me. |
| 1:14.0 | And I've said yes to all of them. |
| 1:16.0 | They've all been great. |
| 1:17.0 | They're really interested in the court. |
| 1:19.0 | They're really nerdy. We can share Supreme Court memes with each other |
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