How Many Blogs and Pundits Read the Supreme Court Opinions They Criticize?

Hmm after watching the debate over the latest Free Speech case this week , that being Citizens United , I would say perhaps 5 percent and that is being generous.

Reading the case does not mean going to Slate and getting blurbs. A Court opinion takes a little getting use too but if you read two or three you get the knack of it.

Of course the same can be said of people that are massive agreement with what a Opinion supposedly says are in the same boat. However I do think those criticizing have a little extra burden to get on the blasted Internet and read the darn thing.

I hear people talk about ROE V WADE all the time. How many on the pro and the anti Roe side have read the opinion? I expect that Opinion has been more widely read but still the numbers are low.

In fact if people did read it they would learn the current regime of abortion laws does not seem to be what the Court contemplated. But people still go ROE says this and ROE says that when often it does not say any such thing.

Name a case? Establishment Clause and Freedom of Religion cases, Second Amendments, takings, the First Amendment. The list goes on and on.