Tumblr Makes First Appearance Before the Supreme Court

One of the world's most solemn institutions recently met one of the web's silliest sites — seriously. Justices and GIFs came together when, for the first time, a Tumblr page featured prominently in a brief presented to the U.S. Supreme Court

Harvard Law professor and political activist Lawrence Lessig created the “Corruption," originally. Tumblr as what he called the centerpiece of a brief he submitted in the McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission case (.PDF), a challenge to current campaign contribution limits

Lessig used the Tumblr page to aggregate his survey of how the framers of the U.S. Constitution used the word "corruption." The page catalogues 325 uses of the word by figures such as George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, George Mason and Patrick Henry. Read more...