Turtle Talk

Lawyers with no Supreme Court experience sometimes insist on going to the Show. The result can be a halting hour of argument that sometimes resembles the 1945 World Series, between two teams so war-depleted that sportswriter Warren Brown said, “I don’t think either one of them can win it.”  [opening]

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Alas, there’s really no need for a theological conspiracy theory. Trial lawyers often really do love their own clients and hate the people on the other side, and often can’t shut up about it. Which it is why both sides would have done better to find dispassionate appellate lawyers, who might have saved us from the possibility that a disgusted Court may make a bad decision.  [ending]