The Supreme Court: The Center of the Storm

Oyezl Oyezl Oyez! All persons having business before the honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the court is now sitting. God save the United States and this honorable court.

The summer vacation ended with the traditional cry of the marshal. And the very haste with which the court hustled through ceremony and got down to its closed-door business testified to its crowded calendar. The nine blackrobed justices spent just 24 minutes admitting 70 new attorneys to practice before them; then they retired to their spacious, book-lined conference room....

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