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Oral arguments as spectator sport

By Mark Obbie

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I love this story by the Post's Mary Beth Sheridan. Taking an ordinary assignment (do a color sidebar on the scene outside the Supreme Court during a high-profile argument), she focused not just on the shouting protesters, but also on the ordinary citizens who went to the Court yesterday to glimpse history being made. The young, in particular, made for inspiring copy:
Those standing in line to see the court's arguments were also discussing the case, but in calmer tones. Some were activists, but many were students, waiting hours for their three-minute glimpse of the greatest law tutorial in the land. They were an unusual lot: high school students who had postponed spring-break trips, college kids who got up at dawn, and even that rarest of D.C. creatures -- the teen-aged Scalia groupie. "He writes fascinating dissents," said 17-year-old Lauren Franz, who rose at her Alexandria home at 4:30 a.m. in hopes of glimpsing 72-year-old Justice Antonin Scalia.
Note the reference to three minutes. Earlier in the story, Sheridan explained that the large crowd dictated a policy limiting spectators' time in the courtroom to three minutes. None was quoted complaining. They were just happy to be there. But I wonder how many more would get that tutorial, or revere a Supreme Court justice or two, if they could watch videos of arguments.

Full post as published by Lawbeat on March 19, 2008 (boomark / email).

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