Live from W&L high school, with Yorktown on video – Toobin!

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. [...]

Covering The Court – live! (now with video)

This was a fantastic panel discussion – the speakers were friendly and funny, and shared a lot of great insight and trivia.  Unfortunately, the discussion moved quickly so there were definitely questions and answers that I missed. Hopefully some of the video clips will help to fill in gaps (we didn’t have a tripod, so [...]

Author/Illustrator Maira Kalman visits the Court

Check out this fantastic piece from today’s NYTimes blogs, by Maira Kalman:  May It Please The Court.

From BLT: “In Twelfth Night Mock Trial, Malvolio Loses”

This is from a mock trial held in DC last night, and it’s funny, particularly if you like Shakespeare: It was an evening of high farce before the high court at the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Sidney Harman Hall in Washington D.C. on Monday night. Three Supreme Court justices and five other federal judges, comprising the [...]

Ginsburg speaks about her return to the Court

In an interview from March 5th,  USA Today reporter Joan Biskupic spoke with Justice Ginsburg: One month after her surgery for pancreatic cancer, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Thursday that she expects to be on the Supreme Court for several more years.   In an interview, she also vividly recalled why, on her second day back [...]

Toobin on Anderson Cooper 360 today

This morning on Anderson Cooper 360, Jeffrey Toobin and Cooper discussed how Justice Ginsburg’s cancer may affect the court.

Justice Ginsburg and the future of the Court

The Legal Times reported Monday: One Court watcher says he suspects Ginsburg’s fellow justices are “furious beyond belief” at the immediate round of media speculation about her possible retirement — and who might replace her — and that it may even bolster her determination to remain on the bench. You can read more media and [...]

Justice Ginsburg hospitalized

The Washington Post reported today: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg today underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, according to a statement released by the court. You can read the court’s press release here.