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The Chief Justice's remarks

The Chief Justice's remarks at the D.C. Circuit's Judicial Conference: The U.S. Supreme Court's number of argued cases will be increasing next Term. And the Court plans to hear oral argument in three cases per day in the fall, as a schedule to be issued on Monday of next week will indicate.

Chief Justice Roberts's prepared remarks apparently will focus on President Abraham Lincoln, whom the Chief Justice described as one of the best jury lawyers in Illinois. In 1849, Lincoln made his one and only U.S. Supreme Court oral argument. The case was Lewis v. Lewis, 48 U.S. 776.

The Chief next posed a multiple choice questions asking what statement is inscribed on the East Pediment of the Supreme Court building and which Chief Justices are depicted on the West Pediment. The next multiple choice question -- and the first that the audience answered correctly, was which two Justices are depicted on the Court's bronze doors. The next question was who was the last Supreme Court justice who didn't attend law school. The answer was Justice Byrnes. Next, the Chief Justice asked how many Justices were born outside of the United States. The answer given as correct was six. And the final question was which Justice appears on the $10,000 bill. Because the audience indicated its votes by applause, the Chief Justice's remarks were interrupted by applause eighteen times.

Full post as published by How Appealing on June 06, 2008 (boomark / email).