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Who says justices can't have any fun?

I just finished reading a fantastically juicy book of Supreme Court gossip, called The Secret Lives of the Supreme Court. It's intellectually worthless, but nonetheless, quite entertaining.

One of the things I learned reading this book is that only one justice has a credit on IMDB (for something other than playing themselves in a documentary). Harry Blackmun had a cameo in Amistad, the 1997 film about the Supreme Court case by the same name. Justice Blackmun played Justice Joseph Story and is featured in the scene where former President John Quincy Adams, played admirably by Anthony Hopkins, pleads with the Court to free a shipload of slaves who had staged a rebellion on the high seas.

At the beginning of this clip you can clearly see Justice Blackmun sitting three from the left:

Full post as published by Supreme Dicta on June 04, 2009 (boomark / email).