How did it go? Did you get to ask a question? Did you enjoy the author talk?
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Court news – Souter to retire
Posted on April 30, 2009 by arlingtonreads
Two items tonight- Legal Times reports that Mark Levy, DC lawyer and veteran of 16 Supreme Court arguments, was found dead in his office this morning. Police are investigating his death as a possible gun related suicide. And, Justice Souter, for whom many of our audience at the Court Journalist Panel Discussion last Sunday professed [...]
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Live from W&L high school, with Yorktown on video – Toobin!
Posted on April 30, 2009 by alex zealand
Toobin talks about why he wrote The Nine instead of a legal thriller: He says that Rehnquist recognized that the Justices believed what they believed, so he set up the Court so they didn’t have to communicate much in person – ‘good fences make good neighbors’. They could do everything by memo instead of in person. [...]
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