A few hours before the ball dropped in Times Square, the Supreme Court released Chief Justice Roberts’s year-end report on the federal judiciary.

The report is a gem, as are so many of the chief’s writings, and its discussion of the court’s conservative approach to technology has drawn much attention–TV cameras and the Internet today, pneumatic tubes a century ago. So, too, has its discussion of Chief Justice Earl Warren’s extraordinary treatment of the court’s unanimous opinion in Brown v. Board of Education— reading aloud the full opinion before releasing paper copies to the press, as law professor Josh Blackman highlights.