lyle it does give denison a pass. to block is not trying us. members of the bar pchlt the press corps is locked in. hey used to allow us to keep our phones and leave. but they adopted a rule to keep the locker.n >> blog from the -- >> this is the -- this is the created to that was address our practices was there was an oral argument. being piped in. i was -- no problem with this. the oral live tweet argument. and i got a call from the said, l of the court who tom, we noticed this twitter thing. is.don't know what that but straight on to the blog. straight on to the blog. that's right. i didn't see you in the s going on?what wa i said i was in the lawyer's lounge writing away. she said that's not going to happen anymore. and the next day there was no el electronic devices in the lawyer's lounge. we had great advantages. experience and form present opportunities but they also constraint. if you go in there and say, look, i have technology. you have a set of rules, look, i'm going to look at 2 marrinsover the rules there. nobody's done that before

the fact that scotus blog became that through the credibility and through lyle denison who's iercely independent, i think hat enhances the remarkable nature of scotus blog and how a s become viewed as journalistic institution in almost every way. i mean, it's possible we could talk about this at some point. you er there are stories aret not write, because you the supreme e court. but i think as a public resource i spent my career lift the veil and shed light over the supreme court. i applaud anybody who's done that. scotus blog has been a emarkable public resource that deserves all of the applause it gets. > that's obviouslily way, way, way too generous. i would say one of -- in my be what this ought to we can extrapolate from our xperience rather than yea, scotus blog. all right, if we were going to do things in other places. people have in us is who practice in front of the supreme court and teach about litigation. place.hat anybody who spends their entire careers focusing on one place, prettyg to understand it well. what we aren't is journalists, we appreciate journalists. we reve