Senior U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf made national news recently when he published a post on his blog about the frequent irrelevancy of the Supreme Court. "A lot of what the Supreme Court does is simply irrelevant to what federal trial judges do on a daily basis," wrote Kopf, who presides and blogs from Lincoln, Neb.

As unusual as it is for a federal judge to call the Supreme Court irrelevant, it is perhaps even more unusual for a federal judge to have a blog.