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Not sure, but that'd make sense! Give it a shot?
@lawfaremedia.org has a fantastic new tool for legal research that builds on the CourtListener database.
You start with a keyword search, then you ask a question about the result set using AI to filter the results further. It's really neat and quite powerful! www.lawfaremedia.org/article/intr...
Why does this matter? Well, legislatures make laws, and case law is how you understand them. Until this finishes, there's no way to understand the laws we live by.
So we are scanning millions of pages and putting them all online.
Update on our case law scanning project: 606 volumes and 655,631 pages are scanned.
From here they go through our redaction system and get digitized for inclusion in CourtListener. Earlier blog post: free.law/2026/04/16/s...
In general, we follow the court's lead on sealed records. If they ask us to take something down, we do. But when an *order* applies to the entire public (with us included), that's unconstitutional and we fight to protect our rights.
We and @facoalition.bsky.social fought an overbroad unconstitutional order telling the "public" at large to pull down a court record.
With (copious and generous!) help from @volokhc.bsky.social and @megangray.bsky.social, we won.
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Re-upping this for journalists working on political cases. Our system can help keep you safe.