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Georgetown 3L Becoming the Ultimate Supreme Court Watcher

By Bruce Carton

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I was intrigued to read yesterday about a new project launched by Mike Sacks, a third-year law student at Georgetown who describes himself as "interested in legal journalism and the intersection of law and politics." This semester, Sacks intends to be the first person in the general admission line for every Supreme Court argument, i.e., the ?First One @ One First Street." Once he starts the line and stakes out his piece of pavement, Sacks will be waiting for others to arrive so that he can ask a simple but intriguing question: "Why are you here?" Sacks says that while the issues, tactics and parties involved in every Supreme Court case are well-reported, "no Supreme Court reporters ever ask the Courtroom?s spectators why they have congregated inside the Temple of our Civil Religion." He explains in the initial post on his "First One @ One First" blog that: [T]he vox populi should matter for those interested in the Court. What does the person in line at 5am hope to see in this case? Why is the family that shows up at 9am hoping to get in? How many of those waiting for the doors to open are lawyers invested in...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on January 19, 2010 (boomark / email).