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Saturday, October 03, 2009

Courts - More on: C-SPAN to focus on Supreme Court this week

Updating this ILB entry from yesterday, Hank Stuever of the Washington Post has reviewed the upcoming C-SPAN series. Some quotes:

There are people in Washington (and beyond) whose fascination with the Supreme Court is like a mild case of Beatlemania. They comb through the court's opinions with gusto; they know where certain justices like to eat lunch out; they've read the heaps of books that all promise some clearer insight into the personalities and minds that form the clandestine nine.

They also probably know it's Supreme Court Week on C-SPAN (not to be confused with Shark Week!), timed to the court's reconvening Monday and beginning with an unprecedented and surprisingly moving documentary Sunday night. * * *

In the still more off-limits rooms where the justices meet to consider and then render opinions, we learn how Chief Justice John Roberts assigns writing duties, and we hear Justice Antonin Scalia's thoughts on whether arguments from attorneys ever really influence his opinion ("It's probably quite rare, although not unheard of," he says) and, from Justice John Paul Stevens, we learn that in the afternoon, coffee is delivered with "a sweet roll or a cookie or something."

Bland and thrilling, all at once. Just another day from on high.

""Supreme Decision," an online game designed to teach schoolchildren about the judicial branch, is the subject of this Washington Post story by Kashmir Hill and David Lat. (David Lat is the founding editor and Kashmir Hill is the associate editor of Above the Law, a legal blog.)

Posted by Marcia Oddi on October 3, 2009 11:14 AM
Posted to Courts in general