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Judges and Judiciary

Mar. 22, 2007

Supreme Comedy

Forum Column - By Jonathan Shapiro - Back in the quiet luxury of their chambers, do U.S. Supreme Court justices really talk about Anna Nicole Smith and Chris Rock? And does Justice Scalia really tease Justice Souter about being a country bumpkin? A lawyer-turned-writer has this satiric transcript from the front.

FORUM COLUMN

By Jonathan Shapiro
     
      New books about the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Rosen and Jan Crawford Greenburg provide unprecedented insight into what goes on behind closed doors within the most important and secretive branch of our nation's government. But neither book includes transcripts from the justices' previously confidential conferences, an omission rectified below.
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