Kindle and iPad Help Kagan and Scalia Read Briefs on the Go
At least two members of the U.S. Supreme Court are apparently saving some trees by reading briefs with electronic readers.
Justice Antonin Scalia uses an iPad, while Justice Elena Kagan uses a Kindle, C-SPAN reports. The network has posted excerpts of a 48-minute interview with Kagan, her first since she joined the court, the Associated Press reports.
“I have a Kindle that my briefs are on,” Kagan told C-SPAN. “I saw that Justice Scalia said that he had them on an iPad and I thought, huh, maybe I should do it on an iPad. But mine are on a Kindle, and I also of course sometimes truck them around just in hard copy. So I do both. But it is, it’s endless reading. … That’s a big part of the job, and if a Kindle or an iPad can make it easier, that’s terrific.”
Scalia said in a November interview that he sometimes uses an iPad, Above the Law reported at the time.
Hat tip to How Appealing.
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