Lyle Denniston has spent an amazing 58 year career just covering the Supreme Court. That covers a quarter of all the justices ever to sit! Forget social media being for youngsters only. This octogenarian blogs for SCOTUSblog, has his own Twitter account and law news website, and liveblogs SCOTUS decisions to a faithful following, where the hashtag #waitingforlyle kicks off the official countdown to 10:00 a.m. on opinion days at the high court. Over his career, he has written about the Court for the Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, The Baltimore Sun, The American Lawyer, and the Washington Star. He literally wrote the book on court journalism, as the author of The Reporter and the Law: Techniques for Covering the Courts. Although his departure from SCOTUSblog means the end of #waitingforlyle, we can’t wait to see what inspired analysis and reporting he’ll do for the Constitution Daily.
Lyle Denniston
Dean Emeritus of the Supreme Court Press Corps