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The Supreme Court's Basketball Games

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

I'm surprised none of the legal bloggers have picked up on this hilarious essay (via Andrew Gelman). It's apparently from a McSweeney's book; it's by Jim Stallard, and is titled, "No Justice, No Foul: Everything You Didn't Know That You Were Afraid To Know About the Supreme Court." The author's obviously tongue-in-cheek thesis: That all of the Supreme Court's 5-4 decisions are decided on the basketball court. The essay consists of elaborate and laugh-out-loud descriptions of the basketball games by which Earl Warren, Harry Blackmun, etc. won this or that controversial decision. The opening paragraphs: Whenever I hear some historian on PBS prattling about the Supreme Court, I have to step outside for air. I know it's a matter of seconds before the stock phrases -- judicial review, legal precedent, activist court -- will start rolling out, and I'll feel my blood coming to a boil as I hear the scamming of yet another generation...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on January 02, 2009 (boomark / email).