Thread by @ASFleischman

I wouldn't hate it if appellate courts had fact checkers and experts they could run opinions by for accuracy.

Not as in, "this is mandatory," but law clerks are never going to be as good at researching factual questions as, say, @RottenInDenmark. It would be cool to have someone smart on hand to look into stuff like "how does this technology work?" or "are these statistics trustworthy?"

You could call them fact clerks!

So if, for some reason, you're not just gonna roll with the trial court's factual findings, you'd have a way to sift through all the amicus briefs talking about stuff outside a judge's expertise.