Could it have happened this way? It is dusk at the Supreme Court chambers. Portraits of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and Felix Frankfurter gaze from the walls. A 54-year-old Justice from a rural white state cues up the official Supreme Court CD player, and we hear . . . Luther Campbell's bawdy, silly rap parody of the Roy Orbison classic, Oh, Pretty Woman: "Big hairy woman, you need to shave that stuff/ Big hairy woman, you know I bet it's tough/ Big hairy woman, all that hair ain't legit/ 'cause you look like 'Cousin It.' " Slowly, almost imperceptibly, Justice David...
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