Another Anony-Blogger Outed

The "Mayor Sam's Sister City" of the judicial world, Underneath Their Robes, has enchanted many with its dishy distribution of news, gossip and more about the Supereme Court and other parts of the Federal Judiciary. Friday, its author sent an email to his co-workers that he would be leaving his government job to take an unspecified position in Washington.

For some time, it was presumed that the anonymous author of the blog "Article Three Groupie," or A3G was a young, female attorney. Two out of three of those are correct.

A November article in New Yorker revealed the author of the blog (if not A3G her/himself) was David Lat, a 30 year old Assistant US Attorney in New Jersey (pictured above). Following the outing, the blog was taken down, but now it appears that Underneath Their Robes will continue.

In parsing his/her own outing, Lat/A3G seems to want to leave open the possibility that A3G is an actual person. "When I have something to report to A3G, I email her about it..."

Here at the Sister City, we have our own experience at being outed and are prime proof an anony-blog can go on when the writers remove the masks. Still, not sure if Brian and I ever intended to seriously entertain the option that Sam Yorty and Frank Shaw are actually alive and well and writing a blog.

We wish Underneath Their Robes the best of luck and look forward to more of their great work.