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SCOTUS WATCH.(The Talk of the Town)(weblogs on justices)
In the months since Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement, Americans have become obsessed with judge-watching. The new pastime practically eclipsed the World Series, with fans paying more attention to Harriet Miers's eye makeup than to Jermaine Dye's batting average. Consequently, this has been a good year for a Web site called Underneath Their Robes, which has established itself as the unofficial blog of record about the federal judiciary. There's plenty of inside dope on the site, including comprehensive dossiers on various jurists and the identities of each new group of law clerks at the Supreme Court, but its real appeal lies in the distinctive voice of its pseudonymous author, Article III Groupie. (Article III of the Constitution established the federal judiciary.)
A3G, as she calls herself, writes like a boozy debutante, dishing about the wardrobes, work habits, and idiosyncrasies of the "superhotties of the federal judiciary" and "Bodacious Babes of the Bench." The author is keen on the new Chief Justice, writing, on one occasion, "Judge Roberts is lookin' super-hunky tonight, much younger than his 50 years. . . . The adorable dimple in his chin is making A3G dizzy." In contrast, she had doubts about Harriet Miers, posting a "Hairstyle Retrospective" and noting, "If Harriet Miers wins confirmation, maybe Supreme Court justices should start wearing powdered wigs." Her posts on the new Supreme Court nominee, Samuel Alito, have included a report--a "judicial sight-ation"--of the Judge stopping in at a Newark pizza shop, and a sizing up of Alito's teen-age son: "Since he's 19, A3G is permitted to say: he's a hottie!"
The blog has many fans, including Richard Posner, the legal scholar and federal appeals-court judge in Chicago. "The beauty contests between judges can't be taken very seriously, but I enjoy the site," he said. "It presents good information about clerkships and candidates. It's occasionally a little vulgar, but this is America in 2005."
In the autobiographical section of the blog, A3G says that she attended an Ivy League college and a top-five law ...
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