"Justice Sonia Sotomayor was only following the lead of her chief during Tuesday's arguments over crisis pregnancy centers when she said she visited the website of one of the centers involved in the Supreme Court case.
When Chief Justice John Roberts did something similar seven years ago, no one uttered a peep. But after Sotomayor's comment, Justice Anthony Kennedy piped up.
"Well, in this case I didn't go beyond the record to look on the internet because I don't think we should do that," Kennedy said.
Going beyond the record, in legal terms, refers to material that is not part of the court record and so untested by the adversarial process."
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/california/articles/2018-03-22/supreme-court-notebook-sotomayor-rapped-for-surfing-the-web
When Chief Justice John Roberts did something similar seven years ago, no one uttered a peep. But after Sotomayor's comment, Justice Anthony Kennedy piped up.
"Well, in this case I didn't go beyond the record to look on the internet because I don't think we should do that," Kennedy said.
Going beyond the record, in legal terms, refers to material that is not part of the court record and so untested by the adversarial process."
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/california/articles/2018-03-22/supreme-court-notebook-sotomayor-rapped-for-surfing-the-web